Hudhud
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𐩠𐩵𐩠𐩵
ID: 4854
Jamme 1972: pl. 5 (facsimile) Image free from copyright

Jamme 1972: pl. 5 (facsimile) Image free from copyright

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Translations:

1So commanded ʾnby and the waterkeeper (or, the Protector) of Brm - through the oracle 
2requested by Ydʿʾb Ygl king of Qatabān - regarding
3S²bʿt and Mtntm and Ḍḥyn and Fryḍ: Ḍḥyn and 
4S²bʿt and Myfʿ and ḏt Yḫd and the plane of ʿynm from the two properties, 
5Byḥn and ḏ-ʿdnm, towards the North from the enclosure of Byḥn, the area in the West, towards the East 
6as far as the mark and the inscriptions which were drawn and written in Ḫlbṣm towards the North,
7that (these areas) were country open to the flood: S²bʿt and Mtntm and Fryḍ and Ḍḥyn and the plane of ʿynm, 
8as a country open to the flood (it is free) from palm-groves, terracing and retaining walls, cultivation of plants and edification of canals and dams, 
9edification of water conduits or terrace cultivations with retaining walls - and as a country open to the flood all constructions must be destroyed, its canals and 
10its cultivations, which were in these lands, their canals and their retaining walls must be eliminated and destroyed; the territory 
11of Ḫḏry is to be prohibited from building, putting up, cultivating, towards the North, cultivations, water pits, canals and retaining walls 
12from the land mark of Ẓrn as far as the inscriptions of Ḫlbṣm towards the East and the North and these lands and the inscriptions 
13which forbad to dig any well from this month forth. This decree has been 
14issued in the third day of the second ten days period of Bs²mm, the first year of Yqhmlk ḏ-Ḏrʾn.

Chronological

Period: B1

Physical

Support: Monumental support → Rock
Measures: h. 180, w. 98-118
Letter Measure: 4-6

Linguistic

Language: Ancient South Arabian → Qatabanic → Central Qatabanic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Legal text
Writing Techniques: Incision
Concordances: Q 694, CSAI I, 195

Spatial

Site: Jabal Khalbaṣ, Shabwa, Yemen
Ancient Name: Ḫlbṣ
Type of Site: Hydraulic structure

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