DASI ID: ID: 2
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"By kind permission of The British Museum"
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"By kind permission of British Museum"
Text:
Translations:
1[... ...] ḏ-Qbḍ 2[... ...] the Supreme Council and the clergy and the staff of trustees [... ...] 3[... ...] the date of the announcement of this edict and whoever should engage in some commercial transactions [... ...] 4[... ...] Mʿnm and Yṯl and may make it legally binding and effective the one who guarantees [... ...]
Chronological
Period: B
Physical
Support: Object → Stone piece
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 28.4, w. 64.1, th. 9
Decorations:
Figurative Subjects:
Subject Level 1: Symbol
Letter Measure: 4-4.3, 10.3 (l.1)
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Minaic → Central Minaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Legal text
Writing Techniques: Incision
Concordances: M 134, RES 2912
Spatial
Site: as-Sawdāʾ, al-Jawf, Yemen
Ancient Name: Ns²n
Type of Site: Settlement
Deposit:
settlement: London
institution: The British Museum
private Collection: false
identification Number: BM 125123=1887,0629.24
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