إعادة قراءة للنقش السبئي Ja 702

Abstract EN

The inscription Ja 702 (=MaMB 145) belongs to the confession inscriptions found in the Temple of Awam/Maḥram Bilqīs.

Consisting of twenty lines, it has led to disparate variant readings from different researchers, owing primarily to the difficulty of its vocabulary, and the unavailability of a suitable photographic image of it, as it was documented by Albert Jamme alone.

Later, Rickmans attempted to correct some letters in order to provide a new variant reading, then Peter Stein included this reading in his article on dreams and visions in pre-Islamic Yemen, due to the occurence of "ḥwlm" in line no.

16.

In this article, I propose a new reading based on Rickmans' correction of the letters, while adducing a new explanation for the word "ḥwlm", and its possible relation to the ritual of sleeping in temples, also known as incubation.