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"By kind permission of GOAM"

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Translations:

1Krbʾmr and ʿmʾmr established in respect to this (?) decision, and if (=as) they have rightly acquired this basin, then let Krbʾmr and ʿmʾmr, 
2their sons and their descendants build each one the half (of the basin), and if ʿmʾmr, his sons and his descendants start (?) the construction of the half of the basin, 
3with Krbʾmr, his sons and his descendants, then let Krbʾmr, his sons and his descendants establish (the price of) hundred gold coins (?) 
4and three cubits, by which ʿmʾmr will pay the basin, regarding the limit of (its) upper part (or: "as limit of the highest (price)), and (let) half of the basin be in the land of Krbʾmr, and half of it 
5in the land of ʿmʾmr, and Krbʾmr (?) the basin; and let not ʿmʾmr, his sons and his descendants construct any canal but let they grant Krbʾ- 
6mr, his sons and his descendants, according to this written decree (lit.: "this inscribed stone"), a kẓrm (?) purchase, with a guaranteed frfrm (?), and with a co-ownership of the purchase and of the (?) 
7.. Witnesses thereof are Ṣdqʾmr son of Ḏʾbm, Bʿṯtr of Yhr and ʿ[.]ks¹mʿ [... ...]

Chronological

Period: A

Physical

Support: Object → Stone piece
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 31, w. 150, th. 28
Letter Measure: 4

Linguistic

Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Early Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Script Cursus: Boustrophedon
Textual Typology: Legal text
Writing Techniques: Incision

Spatial

Site: Unknown
Ancient Name: Unknown
Deposit:
settlement: Ṣanʿāʾ
institution: Military Museum
private Collection: false
identification Number: MṢM 3640

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