DASI ID: ID: 8872
Solá Solé 1964: pl. XIV/1 Image free from copyright
Solá Solé 1964: pl. XIV/2 Image free from copyright
Text:
Translations:
[… …] 1[…] canal and reserved land and pastures [… …] which they acquired [… …] 2[….] and his sons, the family Btʿ, at the sanctuary Ḏhbn, as he violently overthrew (?) and seized all that house (temple ?) 3[… ] family Btʿ and S¹ʿdtʾlb and Mḫṭrn and all his brothers and their sons and their descendants, the family B- 4[tʿ … Wh]bʾl Yḥz, king of Sbʾ, for his servants, the family Btʿ; and according to the inscription which Ns²ʾ[k]rb, son of ... dedicated 5[… …]; may He grant protection, keep fair, upright, healthy and safe His servants S¹ʿd- 6[tʾlb …] all men, grand and small, [who (are) f]ar or near, so that the concessionary document was extended (?), which they impose to 7[… …]
Translation Notes:
1Solá Solé connected ms¹kb to Arabic sakaba "to pour".
6G. Ryckmans translates the Minaic ys¹brr w-s¹mtʿ (RES 3696, 4) as "verser et consacrer". In Sabaic, the IVth form of mtʿ means "to save, to deliver"; hbrr may have a similar meaning, "to keep fair"; for hṣḥḥn cf. the Arabic ṣaḥḥa, "health".
7Solá Solé understands kḏnmy as k-ḏ-nmy, according to the Arabic namaya "enlarge" (see RES 3306, 4 = Gl 282; Solá Solé 1964: 46). The root NMY is not present in the SD.
Chronological
Period: D
Physical
Support: Object → Stone piece
Letter Measure: 3
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Central Middle Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Legal text (conjectural)
Concordances: A 338 a, b
Spatial
Site: Jabal Riyām, Ṣanʿāʾ, Yemen
Ancient Name: Trʿt
Type of Site: Religious area
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