GL1609_03

• Superior document: Squeezes
• Series: Squeezes
• Physical Description: 1 sheet
• Notes: This squeeze preserves the left-hand side 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.[... ... ... ...]ʾab, King of Qatabân, has decreed and ordained this binding ordinance2.[ ... ... ... ... ] Qatabân and the clients of the king and their sons and their wives3.[ ... ... ... ... ] their [ ... ] and their man-servants and their dependents and their serfs from this very4.[… … … ...] male and female children who are born in Tamnaʿ and its environs5.[… … ... ...] with respect to this decree and ordinance, he must expend and surrender6.[... ... ... ...] Shahr. These (things) have (hereby) been decreed in the month of Dhû-Birram the Latter7.[ ... ... ] first [… … ... ] and have been certified as law and signed by the very8.hand of Shahr.Restored full text of the inscription:1.[Shahr Yagill bin Yadaʿ]ʾab, King of Qatabân, has decreed and ordained this binding ordinance (which)2.[the king, Shahr, had made binding on the trib]e of Qatabân and the clients of the king and their sons and their wives3.[and their daughters and] their [maidservants] and their man-servants and their dependents and their serfs from this very4.[… … … all] male and female children who are born in Tamnaʿ and its environs5.[… … who commits a transgression] with respect to this decree and ordinance, he must expend and surrender6.[himself and his property to] Shahr. These (things) have (hereby) been decreed in the month of Dhû-Birram the Latter7.[in the] first [year … … Dhû-Dhar]ʾân, and have been certified as law and signed by the very8.hand of Shahr.

Text preserved in this squeeze:1.[… … … …](ʾ)b | mlk | qtbn | ḥgr | w-sḥrm | ḥrmn | ʿṣm | ʿ=2.[… … … …]n | qtbn | w-ʾdm | mlkn | w-bny-sm | w-tʾnṯ-sm3.[… … … …]sm | w-ʾdwm-sm | w-ġbr-sm | w-wmy-sm | bn-ḏw4.[... ... … …]wldm | w-mrʾtm | b-yld | b-tmnʿ | w-ʾmwr-s5.[... ... …]w | bn-ḥg | ḏn | ḥgrn | w-ḥrmnn | w-bḏl | w-fl[ṭ]6.[… … … …]šhr | w-ḏtw | tḥrg-s | wrḫ-s | ḏ-brm | ʾḫr=7.[… ... ... …]ʾn | qdmn | w-hlyt-ʾy | ʿlhtm | w-tʿlm-ʾy8.yd | šhrRestored full text of the inscription:1.[šhr | ygl | bn | ydʿ]ʾb | mlk | qtbn | ḥgr | w-sḥrm | ḥrmn | ʿṣm | ʿ=2.[ṣm | mlkn | šhr | šʿb]n | qtbn | w-ʾdm | mlkn | w-bny-sm | w-tʾnṯ-sm3.[w-bnty-sm | w-ʾmty-]sm | w-ʾdwm-sm | w-ġbr-sm | w-wmy-sm | bn-ḏw4.[... ...(m)tm | kl | ʾ]wldm | w-mrʾtm | b-yld | b-tmnʿ | w-ʾmwr-s5.[... ...ystʿd]w | bn-ḥg | ḏn | ḥgrn | w-ḥrmnn | w-bḏl | w-fl[ṭ]6.[nfs-s | w-qny-s | l-]šhr | w-ḏtw | tḥrg-s | wrḫ-s | ḏ-brm | ʾḫr=7.[n | ḫrf | ... ... | ḏ-ḏr]ʾn | qdmn | w-hlyt-ʾy | ʿlhtm | w-tʿlm-ʾy8.yd | šhr