Hudhud
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ID: 2920
Fakhry 1952: pl. XIII; Robin 1979 a: 192, fig. 5 Image free from copyright

Fakhry 1952: pl. XIII; Robin 1979 a: 192, fig. 5 Image free from copyright

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Translations:

1Yklʾl and his sons ʾlwhb and ʾls²rḥ, sons of Ġwyṯ of the family Ḥfd, people of Gbʾn, constructed, dedicated and restored on the city wall of the town Yṯl, all the walls of the tower ḏ-Bqrn, and the wall of the curtain of S¹lf the god (?) that of ḏ-Ndbn, and the wall of the curtain 
2of ḏ-S²ftn, the façade and the back wall, in wood, cut stone and limestone, for ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm, Wdm, Nkrḥm, ʿṯtr ḏ-Yhrq and ḏt Ns²qm, with the tribute they had to pay for the gods of Maʿīn and for ḏt Ns²qm, and with what they added from them (from their resources), and they were satisfied with these constructions with their tribute 
3in the day of ʾbkrb Ṣdq, king of Maʿīn. Yklʾl and his sons committed to ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm, Wdm, Nkrḥm, ʿṯtr ḏ-Yhrq, ḏt Ns²qm and all the gods of Maʿīn and Yṯl their lives, their faculties, their possessions, their dedications and their inscriptions against the one who may damage them, remove them and take away them from their place; 
4and they are the construction and the dedications which the people Ḥfd constructed and dedicated, (Ḥfd) who notified this inscription, with hundred and eighty rb (180), which the people Ḥfd gave concerning the construction and the restorations of the walls of the tower and the two curtains.

Chronological

Period: B

Physical

Support: Monumental support → Architectural structure → Walls
Materials: Stone

Linguistic

Language: Ancient South Arabian → Minaic → Central Minaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Construction text
Writing Techniques: Incision
Concordances: RES 2965, B-M 241

Spatial

Site: Barāqish, Maʾrib, Yemen
Ancient Name: Yṯl
Type of Site: Settlement

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