DASI ID: ID: 8777
Fakhry 1952: i, fig. 50 Image free from copyright
Text:
Translations:
1[... ...] built, laid foundations and completed [... ...] 2[... ...] against who may damage [... ...] 3[... ...] their brothers, their children and their sons and their descendants [... ...] 4[... ...] and granted him the quarter, for the family Rymm a quarter and for [... ...] 5[... ...] mrbym. And these men swore an oath to ʿṯtr [... ...] 6[... ...] the tomb that these people bought and whosoever by a purchase [... ...].
Translation Notes:
5mrbym: "Māribite" (?) or a participle 0/2 from rby (G. Ryckmans 1952).
Physical
Support: Object → Stone piece
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 37, w. 43
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Central Middle Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Construction text (conjectural)
Writing Techniques: Incision
Spatial
Site: Maʾrib, Maʾrib, Yemen
Ancient Name: Mryb / Mrb
Type of Site: Settlement
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