GL1608_29

• Superior document: Squeezes
• Series: Squeezes
• Physical Description: 1 sheet
• Notes: This squeeze has, over time, been pressed almost completely flat. Consequently, although some faint traces of musnad lettering can still be made out, the text once preserved in this squeeze is more or less illegible. The text can, however, be restored on the basis of other squeezes taken from the same inscription. It appears that the inscription was already in a fragmentary state at the time of its discovery, and lacked portions of text on the right-hand side.

Text preserved in this squeeze:....................................Restored full text of the inscription:1.[... ... and ordained Yadaʿʾab Dhubyân bin Shahr, King of Qatabân, and the Qatabânian people and the council ]2. [ and (the tribes of) Faqḍatân and Batlân and Radmân and ʾخlmalak and Maḍḥayyum and Yaḥirr and Baklamay and Dhû- Th... …]3.[... ... and Bakîlânhân and all of the (other) tribes over which Yadaʿʾab r]ules, in unison and as a [group,]4.[... ... his fellow tribesman from Qatabân and these tribes, let that individual who has killed be anathematized ]5.[... ... the king judges it and ordains and examin es and declares from Tamnaʿ and]6.[... ... on the spot and an examination in absentia, which the king decrees and examines and declares]7.[... ... let that individual die who commits and offense against this which has been settled, for his life may legally be taken]8.[... ... death or examination (regarding) the life of the one who commits an offense. The witnesses]9.[... ... the month of Masaʿlât of the year of Ghawthʾîl Dhû-Gh =]10.[... ... the town of Tamnaʿ and Waʿlân and عayrum and ]11.[... ... the king … judges and decrees from the town of the tribes of ʿAmm. And whoever kills, let]12.[... ... a land in which he kills, specifically within four days, then let them mourn until]13.[... ... the examination until such time as the king declares, so shall he examine and promulgate. And Shahr has signed (this) in his own]14.[hand. And (so too) have signed in their own hands Zaydum Dhû-Ẓarib Dhû-Dharaʾân and Shahrum Dhû-Dharaʾân and Ṣabaḥkarib Dhû-Hirrân ]15.[... ... Mashkarum Dhû-Gharîbam and Dharaʾkarib bin Ḥanẓat and Gayrum Dhû-Shahr and Hawfâʿamm bin]16.[... ... Dhû-Yagirr and ʿAmmîyathaʿ Dhû-Rashîm and Laḥayʿathat Maʿâhir and Ḍabʾum bin Zikhnân and Hawfâʿathat N=]17.[... ... bin Maʿâhir and ʾAbîshibâm bin ʾAʿsâyfir and Dhaydum Gharîbân and ʿAmmîdhakhar Gulgulân and Hawtarʿathat]18.[... ... Hawfâʿamm Dhû-Haṣbaḥ and ʿAmmîdhakhar Dhû-Shirgân and ʾAbîshafaq Dhû-Harmaw and ʾAbîshafaq bin Giʾnân and Laْib ]19.[... ... and Yithâʿkarib Yiʾdhân and Nabaṭʿalî bin Hathib Rishḥum and ʿAmmîkarib bin Ṣabâḥum and Sumûyadaʿ Dhû-Guʿrân ]20.[... ...shafaq Dhû-Yâfiʿam and Maʿdʾîl Dhû-Naḍîrân and Nabaṭʿamm bin Ṭawiyyân and Yaʿgif Dhû-Yaʿgif and Dhaydum Dhû-ʿAgidh and ʿA=]21.[... ... Dhû-Hathʿar Laḥay and ʿAmmîʾamîn Khabidhân and Sumûyadaʿ Ṭan[.]zum and Yinfaʾ Dhû-Rafit and Nabaṭʿamm Dhû-Dharaḥân. ]

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