DASI ID: ID: 9174

Jamme 1976: pl. 21/2867 Image free from copyright
Text:
Translations:
1Lḥyʿṯt Yrḫm, of the family Mʿhr and ḏ-Ḫwln, qyl of Rdmn and Ḫwln, son of Whbʾl Yḥz built, 2dug up and completed the stela of S²ms¹m ʿlyt, in Her mountain S²hrrm Ms²ms¹m for the descendants of the family Mʿhr, lords of the house 3Hrn, and all the work, the places of prayer, the audience chambers, the towers, the buttresses, the cisterns, the water-collectors, the sources, 4the passes, the road, the building operation, the huts, the enlargements, the warehouses (?), the fortification, the walls, the gate, and the walls of this 5sanctuary on the mountain S²ḥrrm; he joined the wall of this sanctuary on the mountain S²ḥrrm with the wall of the city Wʿln Tʾzl and all 6the tracts of land, the gardens, the arable fields and the ploughed fields of S²ms¹m; by the order and the authority of S²ms¹m ʿlyt and by the favour and the goodwill of ʿṯtr 7S²rqn and their God ʿm and their tutelary deities and by the powers and the authorities of their tribe Rdmn Yhrgb and all their 8tribes, the children of ʿm. Lḥyʿṯt entrusted to S²ms¹m and the goddesses of the citadel S²ḥrrm his faculties and the faculties of his brothers and 9their children and their descendants, lords of their house Hrn, and their house Hrn and all their houses and what they possessed and 10what they will possess and their tribes, the tribes he will rule and wield the authority from their house Hrn and what it is theirs was and will be favourable.
Translation Notes:
5-6ʾs¹ṭr: Jamme translates "the writings", Beeston: "the tracts of land".
6mḥyr: Jamme translates "the pastures", Beeston: "enclosure, garden land".
6ḥrd S²ms¹m: Jamme translates "the restricted areas of S²ms¹m". For Beeston ḥrd seems to be the particular area which received the benefit of the divinely-sent flood; ḥrd S²ms¹m is the area particularly favoured with rain by the tutelary deity.
Chronological
Period: D
Physical
Support: Monumental support → Rock
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Southern Middle Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Construction text
Writing Techniques: Incision
Concordances: J. Maʿsâl 9, al-Miʿsāl 1
Spatial
Site: al-Miʿsāl, al-Bayḍāʾ, Yemen
Ancient Name: Wʿln
Type of Site: Settlement
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