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RES 3858 Q 74; CSAI I, 203
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Legal text |
TEXT
1 [...]ʾ w-hṯb s²ʿbn ḏ- w- w-ḏ- w- w- w-ḏ [... ...] w-hgr-hmw w-m—
2 n[ḫl-hmw w-ʾrḍ]-hmw w-ʾbḍ[ʿ]-hmw l-ʿm [w-l ʾn]by w-l mlk-hmw Ydʿʾb Ygl bn Ḏmrʿ[l]y mlk ywm
3 ḫw[l w-ḥrg Y]ḏmrmlk ḏ- bn S²hr b-ḥrg w-ḫlt Ydʿʾb b-ḍrm tns²ʾ Ydʿʾl Byn w-S¹mhʿly Ynf w-Y—
4 ṯʿʾmr Wtr w-ʾmlk w- w-ʾs²ʿb-hmw w-ʾmlk w- b-ʿlw Ydʿʾb w- w-wld ʿm w-ygb—
5 ʾ w-h[ṯ]b Yḏmrmlk ʾbyt w-ʾrḍty w-ʾqny bn ʿm w-ḏn ʾbyt w-ʾrḍtm qny w-ʿs¹y w-s²ʾm Y—
6 ḏmrmlk bn ʿm b-ʾrḍ ḏ- rbʿ [b]ytw ḏ- w-ḫṭb-s¹my w-ṣrḥt-s¹my w-rbʿ bytw ḏ- w-ṣr—
7 ḥty-s¹my w-rbʿ byt ḏ- w-ṣrḥt-s¹ b- b- w-rbʿ byt bnw w-ṣrḥt-s¹ w-rbʿ byt bnw
8 w-ḫṭb-s¹ w-ṣrḥt-s¹ b-hgrn w-rbʿ s²lṯt ʾbyt ḏ- w-ṣrḥt-s¹m w-rbʿ ʾbyt bnw s²lṯt ʾbyt w-ṣr—
9 ḥt-s¹m w-rbʿ byt bnw w-ṣrḥt-s¹ b-hgrn w-rbʿ ʾbyt bnw s²lṯt ʾbyt w-rbʿ byt bn
10 b-hgrn w-ṯnw nḫlmyw b- w-s¹bʿt ʾnḫlm b-s¹rn w-s¹bʿt ʾnḫlm b- - [w]-ṭd ʿs²r ʾn—
11 ḫlm mẓmʾtm w-ʾrbʿt ʾnḫlm b-bḍʿ hgrn w-s¹dṯt ʿs²r ʾnḫlm b-bḍʿ w-ʾrbʿt ʾnḫlm b-bḍʿ ḏt w-nḫlm b- ḏ- w-rbʿ nḫl b[n] b- - w-rbʿ nḫl bn b- w-rbʿ nḫl ((Yṣrḫ ))b-bḍʿ w-kl s²ʿwb w-mḫrḥw ḏtn ʾrḍtn w-rṯd Yḏmrmlk ʿm w-ʾnby w-ʾ—
14 [lh](y) w- w- w-s²ʿbn ḏn [s¹]ṭrn w-ʾrḍ-hw w-qny-hw l-hw w-l wld-hw w-ḏ-ʿḏr-hw
| 1 | [Yḏmrmlk gb]ʾ (RES). |
| 13-14 | RES integrates ʾ[lht] Qtbn; the integration ʾ[s²ʿb] suggested in Avanzini 2004 a: 281 now seems to me to be improbable. It would be much more satisfactory to complete the lacuna with ʾ[lh](y); indeed the upper part of a y is still visible on the stone. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 So the tribe Ḏbḥn of Ḥmrr and Nʾs¹ and ḏ-Wdn and Ṣbrm and S¹lmn and ḏ-[... ...] transferred ownership and gave back [... ...] and their towns and their 2 [... ...] and their surrounding territories to ʿm and to ʾnby and to their king Ydʿʾb Ygl son of Ḏmrʿly king of Qatabān when 3 Yḏmrmlk he of Ḏrʾn, son of S²hr, was in authority and in command, during the command and the power of Ydʿʾb, in a war, which had waged Ydʿʾl Byn and S¹mhʿly Ynf and Y- 4 ṯʿʾmr Wtr and the kings of Sabaʾ and their tribes and the kings of Rʿnn and Rʿnn against Ydʿʾb and Qatabān and the children of ʿm, and Yḏmrmlk transferred ownership and gave back 5 the houses and the lands and the possessions of Qatabān from Ḏbḥn; then, these are the houses and the land which Yḏmrmlk possessed, acquired and purchased 6 from Qatabān in the land of Ḏbḥn of Ḥmrr: the property of both houses of Ḏkrn and their lower floor and their upper floor and the property of both houses of Ṯbnw and their two upper 7 floor and the property of the house of Rdʿ and its upper floor in Ḥmrr in Nṭʿn and the property of the house of the family Ynzr and its upper floor and the property of the house of the family Nhrbt 8 and its lower floor and its upper floor in the town Ṣnʿ and the property of the three houses of Rdʾ and their upper floor and the property of the houses of the family Bs¹qm, three houses and their upper 9 floor and the property of the house of the family Ḥlkm and its upper floor in the town ʿrmn and the property of the houses of the family Ẓwmr, three houses, and the property of the house of he of ʿglm 10 in the town Ḫdṣm and both palm-groves in Ṣnʿ and seven palm-groves in the valley Nʿmn and seven palm-groves in ʿrm ḏ-Ġylm and eleven not irrigated palm- 11 groves and four palm-groves in the territory of the town [... ...] and sixteen palm-groves in the territory of Ḫdṣm and four palm-groves in the territory of Ḫḍ- 12 r that of S¹lmn and one palm-grove in Rydn of Ḥmrr and the property of the palm-grove of he of Ynzr in Ḥrbt ḏ-Ġylm and the property of the palm-grove of he of Bṯm in Bḍyn and the property of the palm-grove of Y- 13 ṣr Ymdʾlyn in the territory of Ẓlm and all the valleys (?) of ʿzʾz[..] and the canals (?) of this land. Yḏmrmlk has committed to the protection of ʿm and ʾnby and of the 14 [... ...] of Qatabān and S¹ḫl and Ṯwlm and the tribe of Ḏbḥn this inscription and his land and his properties for himself and his children and his cognates. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Rock |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Jabal al-ʿAwd |
| Ancient site | ʿwdm |
| Geographical area | Jabal al-ʿAwd |
| Country | Yemen |
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