Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | about 3.5 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Legal text |
According to Robin on the stela BM 125144 there is only Haram 42, ll. 7-13 = Haram 42A. This is wrong, on the stela there are the two texts, as Glaser already maintained. It seems better to read Haram 42B (Robin) before Haram 42A (Robin). |
10 | The scribe wrongly writes: ḥfyḥ. |
English | |
1 Thus, this boundary stone delimits the property 2 and the irrigated land towards [... ...] 3 possession of Y[ṯʿ]krb from up to 4 water devisor [... ...] 5 [... ...] 6 [... ...] 7 and from this boundary and water devisor 8 of the irrigated land (lying) next ḏ-Rymn and 9 towards ḏ-Tṭnt; indeed, it was approved 10 through a judicial order of the Supreme Council and the 11 baillifs of Maʿīn which was proclaimed; the notaries (were) 12 Yʾws¹ʾl of the family Gnd and Mʿy- 13 of the family Nḍf. |
Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 125144=1887,0629.28 |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 22.8, w. 28.3, th. 13.3 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Kharibat Hamdān |
Ancient site | Hrm |
Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Robin 1992 a: 111-113, pl. 16 | Robin, Christian J. 1992. Inabbaʾ, Haram, al-Kāfir, Kamna et al-Ḥarāshif. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 1. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente] |