DASI ID: ID: 103
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"Jändl 2009: 237, pl. XVIII"
Text:
Translations:
1Lḥyʿṯt and his son Ṯwbʾl and his 2brothers and their sons of the family Whrn, clients 3of the family Mrṯdm, dedicated to ʾlmqh- 4w ḏ-Hrn, as He bade them in His oracle, 5this tablet as a prescription that required 6the dedication of an offering for a child who is born, and ʾlmqhw 7gave orders to them for that tablet; and may ʾlmqhw 8continue to grant them healthy male children, 9and for the well-being of their persons and for 10their protection from harm and injury from any enemy; and 11for what has been favourable and may be favourable to the family Whrn.
Translation Notes:
5we have accepted the translation for ʾṣf proposed with some reservations by SD. The comparison suggested is with the Arabic waṣaf "to make a declaration, a prescription"; however, the substantive cannot be a plural, which would retain the w, but rather points to a ʾṢF root//WṢF.
5-6Beeston 1937 a: 24 adopted the translation by C. Conti Rossini, who interpreted yʿbrn as "to be pregnant" and therefore translated: "for the women who are pregnant, in recompense for the children that they bear",
6the imperfect form of the verb yldn does not present the value of future, but of past progresive tense.
Chronological
Period: D
Physical
Support: Object → Artefact → Plaque → With framework
Materials: Bronze
Measures: h. 20, w. 12.7, th. 0.4
Decorations:
Type Level 1: Framework
Figurative Subjects:
Subject Level 1: Geometric motif
Subject Level 2: Dentils
Letter Measure: 1.2
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Central Middle Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Dedicatory text
Writing Techniques: Cast
Concordances: RES 2691H
Spatial
Site: ʿAmrān, ʿAmrān, Yemen
Ancient Name: ʿmrn
Type of Site: Modern site with reemployed inscriptions or artefacts
Deposit:
settlement: London
institution: The British Museum
private Collection: false
identification Number: BM 48465=1862,1028.13
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