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1S¹ʿdʾwm ʾs¹ʿd and his brother ʾḥmd
2ʾzʾd, of the families S¹ʾrn and Mḥylm
3and ḏ-Nʿmt and Mwḍʿm and ḏ-Rs¹mm, ʾqwl
4of the two tribes of Bklm, quarter of Rydt, and
5S¹hmn, mqtwyy  of Ns²ʾkrb Yʾmn Yhrḥb,
6king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, son of ʾls²rḥ
7Yḥḍb and Yʾzl Byn, kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-
8Raydān, dedicated to ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, 
9the statue in bronze that he attributed to Him as a tithe from the crops grown by natural and by 
10artificial irrigation that He granted to them in spring and summer and harvest season
11in the sixth year of Wddʾl, son of ʾbkrb, 
12of the family Kbr-Ḫll; may ʾlmqh
13Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, continue to grant them 
14good healthy abundant crops and harvests 
15in all their lands irrigated by canals and their valleys and
16their wādī-side cultivations and their land growing summer-crops and their cultivated areas
17and their vineyards and wherever (they) have cultivated and
18will cultivate His servants S¹ʿdʾwm ʾs¹ʿd 
19and his brother ʾḥmd ʾzʾd, of the families
20S¹ʾrn and Mḥylm and ḏ-Nʿmt and Mwḍʿm 
21and ḏ-Rs¹mm and in all the land of their two tribes
22Bklm, quarter of Rydt, and S¹hmn 
23and the first-fruits of their cereal crops of spring and autumn and summer
24and winter; may He grant them the goodwill and
25the satisfaction of their lord Ns²ʾkrb Yʾmn 
26Yhrḥb, king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, son
27of ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb and Yʾzl Byn, 
28kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, and the soundness of faculties
29and of material resources and may He protect and save His servants
30S¹ʿdʾwm and ʾḥmd, of the families  S¹ʾrn and
31Mḥylm and Nʿmt and Mwḍʿm and ḏ-Rs¹mm,
32from the malice and the maleficence and the inimical plot and the hatred and the subjection of 
33any enemy and from any evil and mischief and envy
34and humiliation and damage, the one they are aware of and the one they
35are not aware of. By ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm 
36and they committed their dedication to ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord 
37of ʾwm, from any man that spoils it and displaces it
38and removes it from its base.

Chronological

Period: D

Physical

Support: Object → Artefact → Base → Of statue with dedicatory inscription
Materials: Stone

Linguistic

Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Central Middle Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Dedicatory text
Writing Techniques: Incision
Concordances: Ir 25

Spatial

Site: Maḥram Bilqīs, Maʾrib, Yemen
Ancient Name: ʾwm
Type of Site: Religious area with a necropolis
Deposit:
settlement: Ṣanʿāʾ
institution: al-Kuhālī collection
private Collection: true

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