"CIH 37 (Hadaqan), MH, 43"

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• Notes: In this photograph, CIH 37 appears to be in fragmentary form, with only the top two lines of text preserved. In the photograph of the inscription published in the DASI archive (http://dasi.humnet.unipi.it/), however, we have a further six lines, plus a small portion of a seventh line. To be sure, there are instances in which multiple copies of a text were made, most notably the series of 16 inscriptions of the Sabaean king ʿAlhān Nahfān (r. ca. 195-210 CE) erected at Jabal Riyām (CIH 380 etc.). However, there are slight textual variants in that series of inscriptions, whereas here in the inscription of King Yuhʿān Dhubyān bin Yismāʿʾīl of Sumʿay the text in the photograph and in the DASI photograph are identical, in addition to which the damages to the stone appear in the same places in both photographs. Despite this, there are no traces in the DASI photograph of a break in CIH 37 after the second line of text. On these grounds, it would appear that the black-and-white photograph published here was for some reason cut from a larger photograph.

Text shown in this photograph:1.Yuhʿân Dhubyân bin Yismâʿʾîl bin Sumhûkarib, King of Sumʿay, has dedicated to Taʾlab in Ẓubayân himself and his son s2.Zaydum and Zaydʾîl and all of his (other) children and his property and his house of Yiʿad and his lands of Taʾliqum and all of his property (there) and the property of his father Yismâʿʾîl [and]Restored full text:1.Yuhʿân Dhubyân bin Yismâʿʾîl bin Sumhûkarib, King of Sumʿay, has dedicated to Taʾlab in Ẓubayân himself and his sons2.Zaydum and Zaydʾîl and all of his (other) children and his property and his house of Yiʿad and his lands of Taʾliqum and all of his property (there) and the property of his father Yismâʿʾîl [and] the pro-3.[perty and irrigated fields and wâdî-side plots and houses and lands which the two of them had inherited from their father Sumhûʾafaq bin Sumhûyafaʿ, King of Sumʿay, in the countryside and in town; and his irrigated field of]4.[Nuʿmân which Yuhʿân had acquired and purchased from Bakrum and Hawfâʿathat and Himmatʿathat and Hawtarʿathat and from Hawtarʿathat and ʿAmmîshafaq and Yuhʿân and ʿA-]5.[mmîsamaʿ and Ganiʾum and Ẓarrum and their brothers of the lineage of Riʾbân; and his wâdî-side plot of Dhû-Sumhûʿalay on the way to the agricultural land attached to Ḥadaqân which he had gained possession of and acquired from ʿAmmîshafaq]6.[bin Sirwam, qawl-official of Yarsum; and his wâdî-side plot of Dhât Daʾikh. And he acquired through mutual agreement its property-rights through a gift which his father and paternal uncles, the qawl-officials of Yuhaybib had bestowed, which]7.[the kings of Mârib and the tribe of Samaʿ had bestowed: the tilled area of the wâdî-side plot of Dhû-Daʾikh. And in accordance with the pact which Karibʾîl Watar, King of Sabaʾ, had established for him; and in accordance with the gift and the pact which]8.[the tribe of Samaʿ had established and bestowed; and in accordance with pact and the edict which Yithâʿkarib bin Dharaḥʾîl bin Yuhafriʿ Dhû-ʿUrranhân had established. And (as for) his wâdî-side plot of Ḥayiś … …]9.[and acquired and gained possession of … …].

Text shown in this photograph:1.yhʿn | ḏbyn | bn | ysmʿʾl | bn | smhkrb | mlk | smʿy | hqny | tʾlb | ʿdy | ẓbyn | nfs-hw | w-bn-h[w]2.(zydm |) w-(zydʾl |) w-(kl |) w(ld-h)w | w-(qny-h)w | w-(byt-h)w (| y)ʿd | w-(ʾrḍt-h)w (| tʾlqm |) w-(kl | qny-h)w | w-(qny | ʾb-h)w (| ysmʿ)ʾ(l) [| w-q]Restored full text:1.yhʿn | ḏbyn | bn | ysmʿʾl | bn | smhkrb | mlk | smʿy | hqny | tʾlb | ʿdy | ẓbyn | nfs-hw | w-bn-h[w]2.(zydm |) w-(zydʾl |) w-(kl |) w(ld-h)w | w-(qny-h)w | w-(byt-h)w (| y)ʿd | w-(ʾrḍt-h)w (| tʾlqm |) w-(kl | qny-h)w | w-(qny | ʾb-h)w (| ys¹mʿ)ʾ(l) [| w-q]3.[ny | w-mḥmyt | w-ʿbrt | w-ʾbyt | w-ʾrḍt | twrṯy | ʾb-hmy | smhʾfq | bn | smhyfʿ | mlk | smʿy | b-ḥqlm | w-hgrm | w-mḥmy-hw]4.[nʿmn | ḏ-ʿsy | w-šʾm | yhʿn | ʿm-n | bkrm | w-hwfʿṯt | w-hmtʿṯt | w-hwtrʿṯt | w-ʿm-n | hwtrʿṯt | w-ʿmšfq | w-yhʿn | w-ʿ=]5.[msmʿ | w-gnʾm | w-ẓrm | w-ʾḫ-hmw | bny | rʾbn | w-ʿbr-hw | ḏt | ḏ-smhʿly | fnwt | syr | ḥdqn | ḏ-qny | w-ʿsy | ʿm-n | ʿmšfq]6.[bn | srwm | qwl | yrsm | w-ʿbr-hw | ḏt | dʾḫ | w-ʾtm | ʾtm-h | b-mwhbt | whbw | ʾbh-hw | w-ʾʿmm-hw | ʾqwl | yhybb | ḏ-wh=]7.[b-hmw | ʾmlk | mryb | w-šʿbn | smʿ | mlʿb | ʿbrn | ḏ-dʾḫ | w-b-ḥg | gdyt | hgd | l-hw | krbʾl | wtr | mlk | sbʾ | w-b-ḥg | mwhbt | w-gdyt | hg=]8.[dw | w-whb-hw | šʿbn | smʿ | w-b-ḥg | gdyt | w-mṯbt | hṯb | yṯʿkrb | bn | ḏrḥʾl | bn | yhfrʿ | ḏ-ʿhrnhn | w-ʿbr-hw | ḥyś ... ...]9.[w-ʿsy | w-qny | ... ...]