DASI ID: ID: 3230
Gnoli 1993: pl. 6 Image free from copyright
Text:
Translations:
.. ...] 1[... ...] 2[... ...] 3[... ...] sacrifices to ʿṯtr ḏ- 4Qbḍ forty-four 5tributes in one 6day, 44, and they were 7those appointed (for the tributes ?) of all Maʿīn, free men and employees and 8farmers, and offered five 9offerings to Wd for them (?) and 10(the god) openly approved them and 11they paid for a feast to the torrent of Wd and 12they paid for his temple in Qrnw and 13they paid two feasts in Yṯl and in his irrigated area 14and in the town of 15Mḥfdn and Nʿmn 16and Rdʿ and Yʿd. And they sacrificed 17to Yhrq [... ...]
Translation Notes:
7-9for a synthetic discussion of the meaning of the lines, see Gnoli 1993: 63-65 and Bron 1998 a: 35-36. The most problematic point is the word fqḍ, occurring few times in South Arabian, always as a noun hypothetically meaning "appointed". Here it rather seems to be a verb "to administer, to be the administrator, to be the appointed"; so we think that the phrase could mean that the subject(s) of the dedication were in charge by the whole tribe of Maʿīn of executing the sacrifices.
Note the translation "and contributed all (the tribe) of Maʿīn, nobles and clients, farmers and nomads, to the five ceremonies in honour of Wd" by Gnoli 1993 and Robin 1991-1993 c: al-Saʿīd 1994 noted that ʿrb is not the noun "nomads, Arabs" but rather a verb starting a new segment of text (cf. the formulaic phrase ʿrb mṯʿy "make an offering").
Chronological
Period: A
Physical
Support: Monumental support → Architectural structure → Pillar
Materials: Stone
Measures: w. 33.5
Letter Measure: 6.8-7
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Minaic → Central Minaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Dedicatory text
Writing Techniques: Incision
Spatial
Site: Shaqab al-Manaṣṣa, Maʾrib, Yemen
Ancient Name: Yhrq (?)
Type of Site: Religious area
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