Hudhud
Hudhud Logo
𐩠𐩵𐩠𐩵
ID: 594

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"By kind permission of GOAM"

Text:

Translations:

1[... ...]frʿ and of B[...], qyl and mḥrg of their tribe ḏ-[... ...] 
2[... ... ] and its water conduit (?) Yġl in the land of the family of ḏ-Ḥbb, on the summit [of? ... ...] 
3[... ...] the tank of Mhkn from its foundation to its top and every hollow (?) of it [... ...] 
4[... ...] Mhkn, the summit of the valley up to its lowland, and he built it and [... ...] 
5[... ...]. in this canal, a field (?) and a land with summer crops [... ...] 
6[... ...] and vineyards, and the whole of this completion and construction (was realized) by the support of Rḥmnn [... ...] 
7[... ...] Mrṯdʾln Ynf king of Sabaʾ, ḏu-Raydān, Ḥaḍramawt and Yamnat and their nomads of Ṭawd and Tihāma [... ...] 
8[... ...] the king Mrṯdʾln, to build this tank, and by the support and the help of [... ...] 
9[... ...] .. and his ploughed land as well as their daughters and their children and for all [... ...]

Chronological

Period: E

Physical

Support: Object → Artefact → Slab
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 40, w. 70, th. 7; Monogram: h. 11, w. 7
Decorations:
Figurative Subjects:
Subject Level 1: Monogram
Letter Measure: 3.5

Linguistic

Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Late Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Construction text (conjectural)
Writing Techniques: Relief

Spatial

Site: Unknown (al-Ḥadāʾ), Yemen
Ancient Name: Unknown
Deposit:
settlement: Dhamār
institution: Regional Museum
private Collection: false
identification Number: DhM 287

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