Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Marginal Qatabanic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Legal text |
English | |
1 Ġlbm ... yb son of Dws¹m of Qs³mm has planted and cultivated and terraced and ploughed and completed (the work for) all his fields and terraces 2 S²ʿbn and Lgʾm and S¹rʿ and Yfʿ and all their wells and connected buildings and their canals and their buildings and he terraced and brought under 3 cultivation and took possession in his valley ḏ-Rbḍt and in his territory, in particular eight thousand parts for himself and his sons and his descendants; 4 according to the order and the rule of ʿṯtr S²rqn and ʿm ḏ-Dwnm and Ns¹wr and ʾl Fḫr and with the help of S²ms¹ and with the help and the power 5 of the people of Qs³mm all the tribes ḏ-Mḥrḍw and Ms²rqytn. Ġlbm placed these inscriptions under the protection of ʿṯtr 6 S²rqn and ʿm and Ns¹wr and ʾl Fḫr against all those who damage and destroy and harm and move from their place. |
3 | Recently for nḥql a translation 'unless' has been suggested. |
Avanzini 2004 a: 525-526 | Avanzini, Alessandra 2004. Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions I-III. Qatabanic, Marginal Qatabanic, Awsanite Inscriptions. (Arabia Antica, 2). Pisa: Edizioni Plus-Università di Pisa. |
Support type | Rock inscription |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Jabal Birkha |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Wādī Ḍura |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Archaeological context | Agricultural irrigation context |
Link to site record |
Jamme 1972: 62-63, pl. 16 (facsimile) | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1972. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe III. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A206336#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed] |