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"Frantsouzoff 2016: Fasc. B, 22, pl. 9b"
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"Frantsouzoff 2016: Fasc. B, 22, pl. 9c"
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Translations:
1Reminder of the tribe, that of the masters of the two cities, 2each called Ms¹wrt: their lords, their small landowners, 3their ʾs¹ḫ, their artisans, and their 4servants that they swore an oath of 5obedience to their Patron Tʾlb Rymm, 6He of the mountain ʿdf, according to which they will not graze 7[...] in the area reserved to Tʾlb, He of the mountain ʿdf, 8any small livestock, healthy or dying. 9The one that will be established with certainty that he did graze in that 10reserved area, he was condemned to pay in favor of Tʾ- 11lb and of the tribe a fine of fifty blṭ of exact 12weight or his hand was preserved in the middle of 13the area reserved to Tʾlb. This decree was established 14as Tʾlb prescribed in His oracle 15for the sake of their tribe.
Translation Notes:
3Frantsouzoff 2016: 86 translates ʾs¹ḫm "Blacks" i.d. "servants from Africa".
Chronological
Period: D (conjectural)
Physical
Support: Object → Stone piece
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 108, w. 28
Letter Measure: 4
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Central Middle Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Legal text
Writing Techniques: Incision
Concordances: Nihm/al-ʿAdan 9
Spatial
Site: Jabal al-ʿAdan, Ṣanʿāʾ, Yemen
Ancient Name: ʿdf
Type of Site: Religious area
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