GL1609_02

• Superior document: Squeezes
• Series: Squeezes
• Physical Description: 1 sheet
• Notes: This squeeze preserves a portion of the first five lines of the inscription. The remainder of the text can be reconstructed on the basis of other squeezes taken from the same inscription.

Text preserved in this squeeze:1.Shahr Yagill bin Yadaʿʾab2.the king, Shahr, had made binding on the tribe3.and their daughters and their maidservants4.[… … …] all5.[… …] who commits a transgressionRestored full text of the inscription:1.Shahr Yagill bin Yadaʿʾab, [King of Qatabân, has decreed and ordained this binding ordinance (which) ]2.the king, Shahr, had made binding on the tribe [ of Qatabân and the clients of the king and their sons and their wives ]3.and their daughters and their maidservants [ and their man-servants and their dependents and their serfs from this very ]4.[… … …] all [male and female children who are born in Tamnaʿ and its environs]5.[… …] who commits a transgression [with respect to this decree and ordinance, he must expend and surrender]6.[himself and his property to Shahr. These (things) have (hereby) been decreed in the month of Dhû-Birram the Latter ]7.[in the first year … … Dhû-Dharʾân, and have been certified as law and signed by the very ]8. [ hand of Shahr. ]

Text preserved in this squeeze:1.šhr | ygl | bn | ydʿʾb |2.ṣm | mlkn | šhr | šʿbn3.w-bnty-sm | w-ʾmty-sm4.[... ...](m)tm | kl | ʾwl5.[... ...]ystʿdw |Restored full text of the inscription:1.šhr | ygl | bn | ydʿʾb | [mlk | qtbn | ḥgr | w-sḥrm | ḥrmn | ʿṣm | ʿ=]2.ṣm | mlkn | šhr | šʿbn [| qtbn | w-ʾdm | mlkn | w-bny-sm | w-tʾnṯ-sm]3.w-bnty-sm | w-ʾmty-sm [| w-ʾdwm-sm | w-ġbr-sm | w-wmy-sm | bn-ḏw]4.[... ...](m)tm | kl | ʾwl[dm | w-mrʾtm | b-yld | b-tmnʿ | w-ʾmwr-s]5.[... ...]ystʿdw | [bn-ḥg | ḏn | ḥgrn | w-ḥrmnn | w-bḏl | w-flṭ]6.[nfs-s | w-qny-s | l-šhr | w-ḏtw | tḥrg-s | wrḫ-s | ḏ-brm | ʾḫr=]7.[n | ḫrf | ... ... | ḏ-ḏrʾn | qdmn | w-hlyt-ʾy | ʿlhtm | w-tʿlm-ʾy]8.[yd | šhr]