Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 3 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Legal text | ||
Royal inscription | Yes |
1-2 | see Mazzini 2004 a for a new proposal of the missing section of text. |
English | |
1 [... ...] the land concession and the renewal as a guarantee which gran- 2 ted the king Wrwʾl and the kings of Qatabān to their vassals ʾḥrm and Ḏr- 3 ʾm and ʾḥdb and S¹ʿdm and to their children and to their descendants and to these houses 4 and to their lower rooms and their halls and their upper rooms and all servants and properties 5 which are and are found within these houses and their lower rooms and their halls and 6 their upper rooms; let this property right and renewal be put into effect with regard to whoever be unwilling 7 and deny (the authority of) ʾḥrm and Ḏrʾm and ʾḥdb and S¹ʿdm and their descendants and these 8 houses on the basis of the concession of this present property right and renewal [... ...] and ordered Wrwʾl for his vassals 9 ʾḥrm and Ḏrʾm and ʾḥdb and S¹ʿdm and their descendants to engrave 10 [... ...] this land concession [... ...] |
4 | qnym could mean 'cattle'. |
6-8 | Translation by Mazzini 2020: 67 |
Mazzini 2020: 66-67 | Mazzini, Giovanni 2020. The Ancient South Arabian royal edicts from the Southern Gate of Timnaʿ and the Ǧabal Labaḫ. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 8). |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 30.5 (left), 29.5 (right), w. 39, th. 9 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | al-Ḥinū |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | wādī Bayḥān |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
CIAS: i, 139-145, photo | Beeston, Alfred F.L., Pirenne, Jacqueline and Robin, Christian J. 1977-1986. Corpus des inscriptions et antiquités sud-arabes: Vol. I (1977): Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités; Vol. II (1986): Le Musée d’Aden. Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités. Louvain: Peeters. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres] |
Höfner 1987: 39-48, pl. 5/4 | Höfner, Maria 1987. Neuinterpretation Zweier Altsüdarabischer Inschriften. Pages 37-48 in Christian J. Robin and Muḥammad ʿA. Bāfaqīh (eds). Ṣayhadica. Recherches sur les inscriptions de l'Arabie préislamique offertes par ses collègues au professeur A.F. L. Beeston. (Arabie préislamique, 1). Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner. |
Lundin 1987 | Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1987. Katabanskiy dekret o zemlepol'zovanii RES 3854. Vestnik Drevnej Istorii, 3: 43-62. |
Mazzini 2004 a | Mazzini, Giovanni 2004. A new proposal for the lost beginning of Qatabanic inscription CIAS 47.82/j 1. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 15/1: 72-75. |