Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Measure of letters | 3.5 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Legal text |
5-6 | Frantsouzoff 2016: 102 reads: w-Drywkl mw-fr. His traslation is: "and Drywkl, pèlerins". |
English | |
1 Thus ordained and decreed 2 Tʾlb, Lord of pastures (Lord of Mḫylm), and S¹ʿdm, 3 Yḥmʾl, of the family S¹ḫymm, and 4 their tribe of the city Brn, 5 Tʿrm, ʾs²rʿ and Dr, and all 6 the cultivated land of the city Brn: that they shall set up a qyf and 7 reserve the grazing-ground (against) any herdsman of the 8 open country and of the pastureground of the mountain ḏ-Ḍbʿnn; (they prohibed) from 9 bringing into it any flock 10 according to the boundary cairns of that grazing-ground 11 (following) all its regulations. According what they granted 12 and granted grazing rights, their lords, the 13 family of S¹ḫymm. |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Pillar |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 52, w. 26.5 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | al-ʿĀdī |
Ancient site | Brn |
Geographical area | Nihm |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Höfner 1954: 29-31, 33-35 (photograph) | Höfner, Maria 1954. Taʾlab als Patron der Kleinviehhirten. Serta Cantabrigiensia: 29-36. |
Beeston 1955: 154-156 | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1955. The “Taʾlab Lord of Pastures” Texts. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 17: 154-156. |
Frantsouzoff 2016: 101-104, pl. 24 a-b | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2016. Nihm. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. With contribution by Christian J. Robin. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 8. Paris: De Boccard. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; Collège de France, Laboratoire des Études Sémitiques anciennes; Académie des sciences de Russie Institut des manuscrits orientaux] |