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RES 4768 RES 3560; Gl 454
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic |
| Script | Ancient South Arabian |
| Script typology | Monumental writing |
| Text direction | Right-to-left |
| Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary |
TEXT
[... ...]
1 [... ...]mt ʾb[.]bws¹-hw ʿm[... ...]
2 [... ...]ʾl y(s¹)ʾ(l)n b-hw kl qnym ʿln [... ...]
3 [... ...]ʿkr l-yr(dn) w-yfʿ hʾ (ʿ)lm[n] w-h[... ...]
4 [... ...]y kl ḫny[...] ḏn wtfn b-ḏn [... ...]
5 [... ...] b-Kbr Ḫll
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...] 2 let no claim be raised to that, all property against [... ...] 3 [if somebody] contested, might that document be valid and well known [... ...] 4 [... ...] this grant [... ...] 5 [... ...] By Kbr Ḫll. |
| 3 | M. Höfner (1953) suggests to restore at the beginning the verb [ʾhnn] and translates "es soll gegen jeden Widerspruch kundgemacht werden im Tiefland und Hochland dieses Dokument". RES: "si quelqu'un] élevait une contestation - qu'il soit petit ou grand - contre ce document". |
| Höfner 1953: 152 | Höfner, Maria 1953. Review of Ryckmans, Gonzague 1936-1950. Répertoire d'épigraphie sémitique. Paris: Académie des inscriptions and belles-lettres. [RES VII/1, 1936 (RES 3847-4207); RES VII/2, 1938 (RES 4208-4664); RES VII/3, 1950 (RES 3947-5106)]. Bibliotheca Orientalis, 10: 150-153. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maʾrib |
| Ancient site | Mryb / Mrb |
| Geographical area | Maʾrib |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Notes | The stone inscription is reemployed in a modern house of Mārib. |
| Link to site record |