Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic |
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian |
Script typology | Monumental writing |
Writing technique | Incision |
Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary |
A copy of the legal text is in Nashq, in the temple S²bʿn, the inscription has been found near Mārib. |
1 | RES suggests to restore S¹ʿd[... ... b-]ʿb(r). |
3 | w-lmw: according to Robin 1982 a, the verb could be also read gmw ("s'assembler, se réunir"). |
English | |
1 [... ...] and ʿlhn, his brothers and his sons, S¹ʿd[ ... ... ] obtained a judicial order, concerning ʾnmrm, his brothers and his sons, and on the responsibility of and concerning the family 2 [... ...] to their land. And the family Ḥfnm acquired in the region of Nmrn from ʾws¹ʿṯt, he of Ẓbʿ, and by the order of [.] the king (?) Hlkʾmr [... ..]. 3 [... ...] Bʿzhmw, son of ʿlhn, he of Ẓbʿ. And they came to an agreement with the family Ḥfnm in order that their land was guaranteed by a document of proprietary. And this concessionary document took place in the month 4 of [... ...], son of Ḥḏmt, the second (year). And a copy of this document is in the temple S²bʿn in Ns²qm. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Marbaṭ ad-Dimm (near Mārib.) |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Maʾrib |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Robin 1982 a: 5, pl. 3/b | Robin, Christian J. 1982. Les hautes-terres du Nord-Yémen avant l'Islam. (2 vols), (Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul, 50). Istanbul: Nederlands Historisch-Archaelogisch Instituut te Istanbul. |