DASI ID: ID: 8509
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"CIAS: i, 201"
Text:
Translations:
1Frʿm Ṣdqʾ dug 2his well Mġyl and its "sister" 3Tġl in the catchment area (?) of 4Ḥṣmt.
Translation Notes:
2For ʾḫt Beeston says: "one may speculate whether the fact that one is called the 'sister' of the other means that they were complementary parts of one system of water-exploitation".
bʾr is a feminine noun in Sabaic. -hw could be an engraver's mistake for -h or -hw is referred to the author.
3The translation for ẓbb "catchement area" is suggested by Beeston in CIAS on the basis of the Ar. ṣabba "pour out" and ṣabab "declivity, ground sloping down".
Jamme, instead, suggests "fertile tracks of land" relating ẓbb to Ar. ṭabab "a long and narrow track of land abounding with plants or herbage".
Chronological
Period: C (conjectural)
Physical
Support: Object → Stone piece
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 26, w. 33, th. 17
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Undefined Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Construction text
Writing Techniques: Incision
Spatial
Site: Unknown
Ancient Name: Unknown
Deposit:
settlement: Ṣanʿāʾ
institution: The National Museum
private Collection: false
identification Number: YM 544
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