GL1604a

• Superior document: Squeezes
• Series: Squeezes
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• Notes: This squeeze preserves the right-hand side of the inscription. The remainder of the text can be restored on the basis of its companion squeeze, GL1604b, as well as from photographs of the inscription. There is a slight stain in the bottom, left-hand corner of the squeeze.

Text preserved in this squeeze:1.Shahr Hilâl Yuhanʿim bin Yadaʿʾab, King of Qatabân, has decreed2.of ʾAnbay the patron-deity, and on the authority of the protective goddess and guardian of Shahr, for his clients ʿAmmî [...]3.bar ʾAbân, and for Râʾibum of the lineage of Ḥayaw, and for ʿAliyyum and Yi[...]4.and for their children -without any oversight or omission or detraction or cancellation--as a tie of5.t. So let the priests of ʿAmm Dhû-Labakh and their womenfolk and their sons6.cree. And Shahr decreed for his clients 7 . [... ... ... ...]8.the temple of ʿAmm Dhû-Laba [ kh ]9.And let the priests of ʿAmm Dhû-Labakh comply and (thus) receive their due according to this [...]10.Shahr Yagill might write for them. Signed by the hand of Shahr.Restored full text of the inscription:1.Shahr Hilâl Yuhanʿim bin Yadaʿʾab, King of Qatabân, has decreed [ and announced from Ḥaṭa bum, the temple of ʿAmm Dhû-Dawânum and from Raṣafum, the temple]2.of ʾAnbay the patron-deity, and on the authority of the protective goddess and guardian of Shahr, for his clients ʿAmmî [ yadaʿ and Hafînum of the lineage of Haybar, and for Hawafîʾîl of the lineage of Hay- ]3.bar ʾAbân, and for Râʾibum of the lineage of Ḥayaw, and for ʿAliyyum and Yi[shraḥʿamm of the lineage of Râbiḥ, and for their kinsmen the priests of ʿAmm Dhû-Labakh, and for their womenfolk, ]4.and for their children -without any oversight or omission or detraction or cancellation--as a tie of [friendship and affiliation and protection by ʿAmm and ʾAthîra- ]5.t. So let the priests of ʿAmm Dhû-Labakh and their womenfolk and their sons [ and their daughters adhere to this proclamation and de- ]6.cree. And Shahr decreed for his clients, [ the priests of ʿAmm Dhû-Labakh and their womenfolk and their sons, with their concurrence, in accordance with this proclamation and decree and ] 7 . [ its inscribed versions. And Shahr directed his clients, the priests of ʿAmm Dhû-Labakh, to write out and carve these inscriptions in the valley of Labakh and their chapel in ]8.the temple of ʿAmm Dhû-Laba [ kh in Dhû-Ghaylim and at the gate of عadû at Timnaʿ-(this in) the month of Dhû-Timnaʿ in the last year of Shahrum Dhû-Yagirr. ]9.And let the priests of ʿAmm Dhû-Labakh comply and (thus) receive their due according to this procla [ mation and decree, and in accordance with any decree which ]10.Shahr Yagill might write for them. Signed by the hand of Shahr.

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