DASI ID: ID: 9987
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"al-Ḥasanī 2017: 45"
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Translations:
1ʾls²rḥ ʾṣdq and his sons ʾls²r and ʾlʿ[......] 2Nhym and of the family Ydm built, repaired, constructed, and completed [...] 3the gate, the walls, the construction associated with the walls of their city Ṣyrtn, the tower Yfʿn, 4the two houses Nʿmn and S²bʿn, then they repaired from the foundations to the roof, 5and the towers Rdʿm, Rznm, Yʿrm and Mḥfdm (or: and a tower) towards the protection 6and the tower Yhwnʿ; they constructed a levelled field (or: with tar (?) from the founding to the roof and the 7burial place Mḥwrn, then they repaired Wmwrmm (?) and on it a rfq (?); then they repaired and plastered [...] 8[... ...] in the irrigated land of their city; then they repaired and plastered after that the Abyssinian army 9burned and [...] their city Ṣyrtn, when there was a war to the army of Ḥmyrm [...] 10[... ...] with the help and the power of ʿṯtr S²rqn and their solar deities [...] 11[... ...] their god S²yʾn and Ḥbr and with the beneficence and the power of [...] 12[... ...] and the directive of their people, their group [... ...] 13[... ...] the year 98 (or: 198) 14[... ...]
Chronological
Period: D
Range: 101 BCE - 300 CE
Physical
Support: Object → Stone piece
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 39, w. 95, th. 5
Decorations:
Figurative Subjects:
Monogram Name: ʾls²rḥ
Subject Level 1: Monogram
Letter Measure: 2.5
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Southern Middle Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Construction text
Writing Techniques: Incision
Spatial
Site: Jabal Ḏaẖār, al-Ḍāliʿ, Yemen
Ancient Name: unknown
Deposit:
settlement: Unknown
institution: Unknown
private Collection: false
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