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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
Language Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Marginal Qatabanic
Alphabet Ancient South Arabian
Script typology Monumental writing
Writing technique Incision
Measure of letters 4.5
Chronology
Textual typology Construction text
TEXT marker
1 ʾbʾns¹ bn ʿmḏkr ḏ-Ḫwln qyl Ḫwln ʿs¹y ẓrb w-bql wyn-hw w-kl ʾhr— 2 rw-s¹ w-kl gnʾ-s¹ww b-nḫl-s¹ Yġrs³ b-s¹rn Mʿrmm rṯd ʾbʾns¹ ʾl-hw wynn w- 3 ʾhrm-s¹ bn kl qlmm w-fqdm b-ʿṯtr w-b ʿm w-b Wdm w-b ḏt Ẓhrn | 4 Wd-ʾb
Apparatus 4 Text written in bigger size to the right of the main inscription.
TRANSLATIONSEnglish 1 ʾbʾns¹ son of ʿmḏḫr ḏ-Ḫwln qyl Ḫwln made, gained legal possession, and planted his vineyard and all its
2 warehouses (?) and all its walls in his palmgrove Yġrs³, in the valley Mʿrmm; ʾbʾns¹ entrusted to his god the vineyard and
3 its haram-plant (or: wells?) against any insect pest and drought (?), by ʿṯtr, ʿm, Wdm and ḏt Ẓhrn.
OBJECT INFORMATIONDeposit Banī Bakr, 63 (Private collection) Support type Stone inscription Material Stone Measures h. 21, w. 110, th. 32 Link to object record
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCEOrigin and provenance Modern site al-Hadīm Ancient site Hdw Geographical area al-Ḥadd Found In situ Archaeological context Agricultural irrigation context Link to site record
BIBLIOGRAPHYBāfaqīh and Bāṭāyiʿ 1994 : 90, fig. 11 (A, B)Bāfaqīh, Muḥammad ʿA. and Bāṭāyiʿ, Aḥmed 1994. Naqšān ǧadīdān min al‐Ḥadd. Raydān , 6: 89-103.