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RES 4765 Gl 447
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 (conjectural) |
TEXT
1 [...] wfyn s¹ʾr[...] mrʾ-hw [... ...]
2 b-kn tʿlm ʾw[...] ḏ-S²rʿ[n ... ...]
3 w-b blṭ s¹ṭry b-hw ʿlm w[... ḫr]—
4 f Tbʿkrb bn Bʿṯtr [... ...]—
5 bd w-l yknn hʾ ʿlm[n ... ...]
6 Wʿln bny ḏ-S²ʿrn w-ʾl[ ... ...]
| 1 | Höfner integrates [ys¹t] wfyn. "Que soit gardé en bon état" (RES). |
| 1 | s¹ʾr: according to RES, this name would be incomplete and belonging to a proper name. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [...] pay the rest (?) [...] his lord [... ...] 2 when ʾw[...] ḏ-S²rʿn signed [... ...] 3 and for the coins for which they wrote the document [...] 4 during the year of Tbʿkrb son of Bʿṯtr [... ...] 5 and may this document be [... ...] 6 Wʿln, of the banū ḏ-S²ʿrn, and [... ...] |
| 1 | "Que soit gardé en bon état" (RES). |
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 |
| Notes | From the city center, embedded upside down. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Höfner 1938: 10 | Höfner, Maria 1938. Die Inschriften aus Glaser Tagebuch XI (Mārib). Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 45: 7-37. |