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CIH 506
By kind permission of British Museum
By kind permission of British Museum
By kind permission of British Museum
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 3.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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GENERAL NOTES
| The palaeography could be in the period B (see s²), but the presence of the "tutelary deities" suggests a period C. |
TEXT
1 [... ...] s¹r[... ...]
2 [... ...]th w-m(ʾḏ)n-h w-mʾḫ(ḏt)[... ...]
3 [... ...] b-s¹r w-mwfr b-hgrn w-s¹rn ḏ-Ḫdmm [... ...]
4 [... ...b-ḏt ]Bʿdnm w-b ʾlʾlt-hmw w-mnḍḥt[-hmw ... ...]
5 [... ...] s²ʿb-hmw Bklm[ rb]ʿn ḏ-[R](y)dt [... ...]
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...] 2 [... ... ] and its authority and its content (of a decree) [... ...] 3 [... ...] in the valley and the cultivated land (which are) in the city and valley ḏ-Ḫdmm[... ...] 4 [... ...] by ḏt Bʿdnm and their gods and their tutelary deities [... ...] 5 [... ...] their tribe Bklm, the part of Rydt [... ...] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 125145=1887,0629.29 |
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 25, w. 54, th. 11 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Notes | Glaser maintains a provenance of this text from Maʿīn. |
| Link to site record |