DASI ID: ID: 8552
Text:
Translations:
.. ...] 1and his irrigation channel in order to irrigate these two palmgroves and let to be these two 2palmgroves fruitful and productive: a palmgrove that belongs esclusively to him- (the palmgrove) on which 3he has full legal claim, and another palmgrove - one adjacent to the former, for which he provides the irrigation. So let nobody 4claim for these two palmgroves [... ...] and the irrigation system and 5the property and the deflector dam of ʾbyn that is between the irrigation canal and between the boundary.
Translation Notes:
1ms³wr: "spouts" (A. Beeston 1951 a).
1-4"und diese beiden Palmgärten mögen sich als ertragreich und ergiebig? erweisen, und zwar handelt es sich bei dem einen Palmgarten, der aussschließlich ihm gehört, um denjenigen, auf den er den vollen gesetzlichen Anspruch hat, bei dem anderen Palmgarten handelt es sich um einen an den vorhergenannten angrenzenden und (zugleich) um denjenigen (Palmgarten), den er bewässert. So sei es denn auch nicht der Fall, daß jemand auf diese beiden Palmgärten (irgendeinen) Anspruch erhebe" (N. Nebes 1995)
2m[w]k[b]tm: "gepflegte" (M. Höfner 1938).
2-3ḏ-b-h[w] [y]s¹ʾl: "with full legal title" (A. Beeston 1978 b).
3[ʾ]ḫ-hw: "object which is a pair to s.t. else " (SD).
nḫlm zrr b-ʿly [ʾ]ḫ-hw w-(ḏ) yhrwy(n): "and one adjacent to the former, for which he provides the irrigation supply" (A. Beeston 1978 b).
Chronological
Period: A (conjectural)
Physical
Support: Object → Stone piece
Materials: Stone
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Early Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Script Cursus: Boustrophedon
Textual Typology: Construction text
Concordances: Gl 620
Spatial
Site: Maʾrib, Maʾrib, Yemen
Ancient Name: Mryb / Mrb
Type of Site: Settlement
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