DASI ID: ID: 5952

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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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