DASI ID: ID: 5589
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"Robin 1998 a: figs 5-6"
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Translations:
1Yrfʾ ʾṣḥḥ, ibn ʾs²yb and ḏ-ʿmrt and ibn S²bṯn and ḏ-ʾlʾmn 2and ḏ-Kbrn and ʿlt, governor of the tribe Maḍḥi, and Hwfʿm and ʿbdʿm and 3the masters of the banū Yʿgf and Gzrtn, governors of the house Ys¹rn directed the work, 4raised with ground and insulated the dam from its foundations to the stream in the rock 5below Ḥṣbn. They raised up, from the basin to the land that they exploited 6for agriculture, eleven cubits and remained from the height of the damm 7that five cubits. They raised up, as their lord Shamr, king 8of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, ordered them in the year two hundred seventy- 9five.
Chronological
Period: D
Mentioned Date: 275 Maḍḥī
Physical
Support: Monumental support → Rock
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Southern Middle Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Construction text
Writing Techniques: Incision
Spatial
Site: Unknown (wādī Shirjān), Yemen
Ancient Name: Unknown
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