DASI ID: ID: 1298
Text:
Translations:
1Ḥnbṣm son of Ḥlwm, 2father of Ntnm and Ṣdqyfʿ, 3of the clan Nʿmn, dedicated 4to Mtbnṭyn ʿṯt, when 5Yḏmrmlk charged him 6with the campaign against Awsān and the campaign of plundering 7of the oasis of Nashshān, and he was governor in 8Nashshān for two years until Krbʾl 9required Nashshān from them and 10destroyed it, and took in the city [... ...] 11and its constructions and Ṣdqn 12and Yʿd and Fnwn and 13its constructions, and took its ditch (?) 14Ḍfw and took in the two oasis 15Qtbt and ḏ-Ḥqr [... ...] 16and Qhd and in S¹ybn 17the irrigated land (or, the half) of ḏ-Ḫlwkl in 18ʾḥgwn - field (?) of a hundred measures (?) -, 19and he cultivated Fys²n in measures (?), 20and he excavated Tġl and Yḏmrmlk granted it 21as a ditch (?) to Ḥnbṣm, 22and he made a sacrifice for ḏ-Qbḍ 23and Wdm twice, by the command of 24ʾlmqh and Mtbnṭyn and 25Yḏmrmlk and by Bʿṯtr and by 26Haram and ʾlmnbṭ and his son, 27and he made pay the tithe of what he made him inherit (?).
Translation Notes:
7It is not clear whether the subject is still Yḏmrmlk and ʿqb is governed by the verb hqdm, "and (Yḏmrmlk appointed him) governor in Nashshān", or here a new sentence starts whose subject is the dedicant of the inscription.
11, 13The word ḫṭb refers to a part of a building (Beeston et al. 1982: "lower storey").
13, 21For the meaning of nwy, see Avanzini 1995: 97 ("retaining ditch"), with a reference to Müller, Walter W. 1962: 108. Robin translates "domaine octroyé" (Ar. nawà "conserver").
17fqḥ means "exploit land by irrigation" or "half".
19"et il multiplia les parcelles pour Fys²n" (Robin). The SD gives a different meaning for wfd: "cultivate".
26-27"Il décupla (?) ce dont il hérita" (Robin). It is not clear who is the subject of this sentence. It could be the author of the text, who pays the thite on his concessions. It remains unclear who are "ʾlmnbṭ and his son" and which role they play: we know that the name ʾlmnbṭ was typical of the royal dynasty of Nashshān.
Chronological
Period: A
Physical
Support: Monumental support → Architectural structure → Pillar
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 260, w. 55, th. 25
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Early Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Dedicatory text
Writing Techniques: Incision
Concordances: CIH 516
Spatial
Site: Kharibat Hamdān, al-Jawf, Yemen
Ancient Name: Hrm
Type of Site: Settlement
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