DASI ID: ID: 9045
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"Christian J. Robin Frantsouzoff 2009 a: 156, fig. 1"
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"Frantsouzoff 2016: Fasc. B, 57, pl. 54b"
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"Frantsouzoff 2016: Fasc. B, 57, pl. 54c"
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Translations:
1Declaration (on behalf) of ʾlhb Zʿmn and all their brothers 2and their sons, clients of the family S¹ḫmm: 3indeed they sought favour from Tʾlb, Lord 4of Qdmn, as the god of Ḫs¹ʾm [and...] and T'lb commanded them 5in His oracular response 6to sacrifice Him a victim and to repeat 7in [...] in the month of Ṣrb regularly, once 8a year, on His behalf; may He protect them from 9everyone who did damage to their land and their house 10Rbn, from (any) loss and insect pests. And Tʾ- 11lb, He promised to His devotees to protect them 12from any mischievous person, from the establishment of this do- 13cument onwards. And this document was (written) 14in the month of Dṯʿ in the year of Rb, son of Yfs², 15of the family Yhs³ḥm.
Translation Notes:
7-8The editor translates: "and may He reward them with big (beasts)". At the beginning of l. 8 he reads: s³ḫnn and he notes: "this word, attested here for the first time in Epigraphic South Arabian languages, can be compared with ṯaḫīn (pl. ṯiḫān) 'thick, big, coarse, or gross" in classical Arabic (Lane 1863-1893: 333)" (Frantsouzoff 2009: 158).
Chronological
Period: D (conjectural)
Physical
Support: Object → Stone piece
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 112, w. 39
Letter Measure: 4.2 (l.1)
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Central Middle Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Legal text
Writing Techniques: Incision
Concordances: MAFRAY-Mahazza 1
Spatial
Site: Quṭra, Ṣanʿāʾ, Yemen
Ancient Name: Mṭrtm
Type of Site: Settlement
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