DASI ID: ID: 8789

Robin 1982 a: ii, pl. 4 Image free from copyright
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Translations:
1Ns²ʾkrb Yʾmn Yhrḥb, king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, son of ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb and Yʾzl Byn, the two kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, handed over, granted, transferred and gave possession to 2his vassals Yhʿn and his sons Hḥyʿṯt, S²fʿṯt and Whbʾwm and to all their brothers and their children and their descendants, of the family ʿṯkln ʿṣyt, of all the men and women 3that are named ʾs¹lm, Mlkm, Whbm, Gys²m, S¹ʿdm and ʾlġz and their mother and sisters: Mḥyt, Ms²nʾt, Ḥmd and Nʿmlt and Ḥlk and all 4 their brothers. And all those women, their sisters, their daughters , their sons and their descendants, of the family Mḫbḍm Ḍḫrn, mqtwy of the family ʿṯkln, so that those men ʾs¹lm and 5all his brothers and the women Mḥyt, and all his sisters and daughters and all his sons and the children of their children and their descendants would be to the house and to the part of the house of their lords, the 6family ʿṯkln ʿṣyt, so that these men ʾs¹lm and his brothers and Mḥyt and all his sisters and his daugheters and their descendants would be similar to and (with) the legal status of their subordinates, the vassals 7of the family ʿṯkln, that on the city of Mrb, Ns²qm and Nashshān. And everyone should accept this document who had established that they not belong to the family ʿṯkln. And the house ʿṯkln gave legal effect and decided in tribal assembly to fulfil (the obligations). 8And may this document be binding for those men and women that are mentioned in this decree according to what their lords, the kings, decreed about the family ʿṯkln and made the rule irrevocable and maintained in proper order and decided in tribal assembly 9to fulfil (the obligations) like and with the legal status of their tribe ʾmrm, vassals of the king.
Translation Notes:
5by(t w)-ẓbr by(t ʾ)[m]rʾ-hn: "to the house of their (fem.) lo[r]ds, Banū ʿṯkln ʿṣyt, as its integral part", literally "(belong) to the house, and the corner of the house" i.e." be an integral part of the house (=clan) (A. Korotayev, 1995). See also the translation of Fa 3, 6.
8l-qbly ḏt hftḥw b-ʿm bn ʿṯkln: "because the Royal Power has made the judicial decision in favour of Banū ʿṯkln".
Chronological
Period: D
Physical
Support: Object → Stone piece
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 47, w. 270
Decorations:
Type Level 1: Framework
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Central Middle Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Legal text
Writing Techniques: Relief
Royal Inscription: Yes
Spatial
Site: Maʾrib, Maʾrib, Yemen
Ancient Name: Mryb / Mrb
Type of Site: Settlement
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