GL1155O

• Superior document: Squeezes
• Series: Squeezes
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• Notes: This squeeze preserves two to three words in each of the first three lines of text. The fourth line of the inscription is not preserved. The rest of the text is reconstructed based on photographs of the entire inscription.

Text preserved in this squeeze:1.and its back wall with stone2. the southern region and the northern region3.[ ka ] rib bin ʾخlîyafaʿ; and byRestored full text of the inscription:1.[ʿAmmîṣadaq bin Ḥamîʿathat Dhû-Yâfiʿân and Saʿd bin ʿAlag Dhû-Ḍafgân, the two kabîrs of Maṣarân and Maʿîn Maṣarân -those who conducted a caravan and traded with them in Egypt and Assyria and ʿAbar-Nahrçn during the kabîrate of … …m Dhû-Radaʿ (in) the first part of his kabîrate -have dedicated and built and offered to ʿAthtar Dhû-Qabḍim the curtain-wall of Tanʿim: the façade decorated with wood and stone, from the foundations to the top,] and its back wall with stone, [the entire curtain-wall between the two towers of Ẓâribân and Labûʾân; (this) with the taxes and the obligatory payments which ʿAth-]2.[tar Dhû-Qabḍim had imposed, which he discharged. And ʿAthtar Dhû-Qabḍ was pleased and satisfied, on account of the tribute and obligatory payments, with the construction of the curtain-wall, (as seen) when ʿAthtar Dhû-Qabḍim and Waddum and Nakraḥum and their command protected them and their property from the attacks which Sabaʾ and Khawlân made on them and their property and their livestock on the road between Maʿîn and Ragmatum, and from the war that took place between ] the southern region and the northern region; [ and when ʿAthtar Dhû-Qabḍim and Waddum and Nakraḥum protected them and their property in the middle of Egypt during]3.[the upheaval that took place between the Persians and Egypt, ʿAthtar Dhû-Qabḍim protecting them and their property with safety and well-being until they entered their town of Qarnâ. By ʿAthtar Shâriqân and by ʿAthtar Dhû-Qabḍim and by Waddum and by Nakraḥum and by ʿAthtar Dhû-Yahraq and by Dhât-Nashqim; and by all the gods of Maʿîn and Yathill; and by ʾAbîyadaʿ Yathaʿ, King of Maʿîn; and by the son of Maʿdîka ] rib bin ʾخlîyafaʿ; and by [their tribe of Maʿîn and of Yathill; and by the two kabîrs of Maṣarân, ʿAmmîṣadaq and Saʿdum. And ʿAmmîṣadaq]4.[and Saʿdum and Maʿîn Maṣarân have entrusted their offering and their inscriptions to the gods of Maʿîn and Yathill, and the king of Maʿîn and the Minaeans, against anyone who might tear out and carry off and take away their inscriptions from their place; and by ʿAmmîsamaʿ Dhû-Balîḥ, the kabîr of Yathill. ]

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