GL1422

• Superior document: Glass plate negatives and -positives, photographs, negatives, film reels
• Series: Glass plate negatives and -positives, photographs, negatives, film reels
• Notes: The squeeze in this photograph is marked with a pencil to facilitate reading. The photograph itself is upside down. Note the stylized image of a bull's head, a common cultic symbol in ancient South Arabian iconography. Although Höfner (1944: 91) [bib:N4ZHS9UW] gives Šeqīr as the provenance of this inscription, the Digital Archive for the Study of Pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions gives Ḥinū az-Zurayr (ancient Harbat) as the provenance.

1.Yadaʿʾab Dhubyân2.bin Shahr, the ruler of Qatabân and all of the child-3.ren of ʿAmm and ʾAwsân and Kaḥid and Da-4.hasum and Tubanû and Yarfaʾ, the southern reaches5.and the northern reaches, has cut and carved out and levelled the road6.and the mountain pass of Ẓarrum at the command of ʿAmm Dhû-Shaqîr. By ʿAmm, and by7.ʾAnbay, and by ʿAmm Dhû-Raymatim, and by ʿAmm Dhû-Shaqîr, and by8.Ḥawkam, and by Dhât-Ṣanatim, and by Dhât-Ẓahrân, and by Dhât-Raḥbân.9.ʾAwsʿamm, the son of Yiṣurʿamm, of the lineage of Madihum, led and commanded all of10.the cutting and carving out and smoothing of the mountain pass of Ẓarrum, by the command of his lord,11.Yadaʿʾab.

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