Haram 42 M 297; RES 3310
By kind permission of British Museum
- By kind permission of British Museum
- Robin 1992 a: pl.16
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| 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 |
GENERAL NOTES
| 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). |
TEXT
1 w-ḏn wṯnn ḥfḏ q[ny]
2 w-m(s¹)ḥft wtw [... ...]
3 q(n)y Y[ṯʿ]krb bn s³[nn]
4 fs¹(ʾ) [... ...]ns¹ khl[...]
5 mʿl[... ...]—
6 (t)ḥ ḥʿy[... ...] ←
7 w-bn ḏn wṯnn w-fs¹ʾ m—
8 s¹fḥt b-ʾṯrh ḏ-Rymn w-
9 rkl ḏ-Tṭnt w-ṣtdq |
10 b-ftḥ ḥfy*h* nfs¹ w-r—
11 bqhy Mʿn ḏ-ngw s¹mʿ
12 Yʾws¹ʾl ḏ-(Gnd) w-Mʿy—
13 d ḏ-Nḍf
| 10 | The scribe wrongly writes: ḥfyḥ. |
TRANSLATIONS
| 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. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| 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 |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Kharibat Hamdān |
| Ancient site | Hrm |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
Boundary stela for the borders of irrigated lands.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| 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] |