DASI ID: ID: 2497
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"Arbach and Schiettecatte 2006: pl. 9/24"
Text:
Translations:
1[... ...] of the town and of the canals (?) and of the drainages (?) [... ...] 2[... ...] Wtrʾl and if they raise and delimit from [... ...] 3[... ...] proclamation of the decree and till the very day they will fill [... ...] 4[... ...] may they continue to hunt down and notify (?) the one who will repeat [... ...] 5[... ...] from the coin (?) and the command of the oracle and repeat [... ...] 6[... ...]
Translation Notes:
The translation of the first and the fourth line is hypothetic, due to the impossibility of determining the exact context.
1the meaning of the word qrqr remains obscure. Usually translated "chapel" or "adyton" when found in construction inscriptions of temples' contexts, here it seems to be rather connected with hydraulic structures. On the base of a parallel with Ethiopic, we could suggest the hypothetic meaning "drainages".
Chronological
Period: B
Physical
Support: Object → Stone piece
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 21, w. 75.5, th. 20
Letter Measure: 3
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Minaic → Central Minaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Legal text (conjectural)
Writing Techniques: Incision
Spatial
Site: Unknown
Ancient Name: Unknown
Deposit:
settlement: Ṣanʿāʾ
institution: The National Museum
private Collection: false
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