Mohammed MARAQTEN, Çevirmen: Hakan TEMİR, Çevirmen: İbrahim OĞUZHAN

Kinde ve Mezhic Kralı Mâlik b. Muâviye’nin Himyerî Kralı Şemmer Yuhar`iş’i Me’rib’teki Ziyareti

Sebe diline ait ve mB 2006 İ-54 (şek. 2) olarak adlandırılan kitabe, siglum/müstensih (yani yazar) kısaltması içermekte ve Yemen/Me’rib yakınlarındaki Avâm Tapınağı/Maḥrem Belkîs’ta Sebe tanrısı el-Makah’a adanmış bronz bir heykelciğin kaydını taşımaktadır (Maraqten 2015: 109–135). Öğenin Açıklaması: Heykelciğin alt kısmı şu an kayıptır ve yazıt tek bir yüze kazınmıştır. Yazıt, biraz aşağı eğilmiş ve çift, hafifçe kazınmış yatay çift çizgiler şeklinde oyulmuştur. Taşın yüzeyi parlatılmış; heykelciğin yapışık olduğu üst yüzey kırılmış ve ilk satır neredeyse tamamen kaybolmuş vaziyettedir. Sol alt köşe kırılmış ve taşın bazı kenar bölümleri hafifçe zarar görmüştür. Metin, ilk satırdaki birkaç kayıp harf dışında eksiksiz vaziyettedir. Yazıtın üst kısmı kısmen kaybolmuş olsa da transkripsiyonda gösterildiği üzere 11. satıra atıfta bulunarak yeniden oluşturulması mümkündür. Bu 14 satırlık yazıt; 9. AFSM’nin (American Foundation for the Study of Man/Amerikan İnsan Araştırmaları Vakfı) 2006 yılı sezonunda düzenlediği kazılarda, Avâm Tapınağının ek binasında keşfedildi ve zeminin döşenmesinde yeniden kullanıldı. Yazılı bloğun ölçüleri aşağıdaki gibidir: 35×22cm; harf yüksekliği: 1,5×1,7cm. Kavisli el-Makah sembolü satır bir ve ikinin başlangıcında göze çarpmaktadır; ancak üst kısmı kırılmıştır. Yazıtın bugünkü konumu Avâm Tapınağı’dır ve hala yerindedir

Anahtar Kelimeler:

Antik Güney Arabistan, Himyerî, Kinde, Mezhic, Avâm Tapınağı, Karyetü’l-Fâv, Mâlik b. Muâviye, Şemmer Yuhar`iş.

The Visit of Mālik bin Muʿāwiyah, King of Kindah and Maḏḥiǧ to the Himyarite King Šammar Yuharʿiš in Maʾrib

Our Sabaic inscription bears the siglum mb 2006 i-54 (fig. 2) and records an offering of a bronze statuette dedicated to the Sabaean god Almaqah at the Awām temple/Maḥram Bilqīs, near Maʾrib, Yemen (Maraqten 2015: 109–135). Item Description: Base of a statuette, now missing, inscribed on one face. The inscription, canted slightly downwards and is engraved between double, lightly-incised horizontal double-lines. The face of the stone is polished; the top surface, where the statuette would have been attached, is broken away and the first line is mostly lost. The lower left corner is broken away and some parts of the stone edges are slightly damaged. The text is intact apart from few lost letters in the first line. Although the upper part of the inscription is partly lost, its reconstruction, as indicated in the transcription, is possible with reference to line 11. This 14 lines inscription has been discovered during the ninth afsm season, 2006 in the Annex of the Awām temple and is reused in the pavement. The measurements of this inscribed block are as follows: 35×22cm; letter height: 1.5×1.7cm. Almaqah curved club symbol occurs at beginning of line one and two; the upper part is broken. Present location of the inscription is the Awām Temple and still in situ

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