DASI ID: ID: 9808
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"Maraqten 2015: 126, fig. 22"
Text:
Translations:
1From ʾĪlwahab of the family Dhū-ʿAbrān: let him beware of [his crime] and 2let him perform an expiation: whoever would have a sexual intercourse with a woman inside the temple and 3whoever enters the temple impure (without being ritually purified) and whoever enters (the temple) to get water in a jar while he is 4impure (without being ritually purified) and he did not have the ritual washing. And Almaqahū granted 5protection for His worshiper ʾĪlwahab.
Chronological
Period: C (conjectural)
Range: 100 BCE - 100 CE
Physical
Support: Object → Stone piece
Materials: Stone
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Central Middle Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Legal text
Writing Techniques: Incision
Spatial
Site: Maʾrib, Maʾrib, Yemen
Ancient Name: Mryb / Mrb
Type of Site: Settlement
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