Maʿīn 94 M 393
Bron 1998 a: pl. 69
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Lists of foreign wives |
GENERAL NOTES
| As far as the chronology is concerned, see the contribution by Lemaire 1996 and the summary of the matter in Bron 1998 a: 102-103. |
TEXT
1 Mrd bn ʿ[....] ḏ-Fʾmn [ḏ-ʾ]—
2 hl ʿlyʾl s¹krb w-ḫs³r ʾnṯ—
3 t-s¹ G(ny) bnt Ty(m)y Ddnyn ḥ—
4 rt bn<-ḏ> Ddn |
5 Tym[...] bn [....] ḏ-Ḥ—
6 rḍ ḏ-ʾhl Gbʾn s¹krb w-ḫ—
7 s³r [... ...]
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Mrd son of [... ...] ḏ-Fʾmn 2 of the clan ʿlyʾl has married and paid the price for his 3 wife Gny, daughter of Tymy, the one from Ddn, free 4 woman, from Ddn. 5 Tym[...] son of [... ...] ḏ-Ḥrḍ 6 of the clan Gbʾn has married and paid 7 the price for [... ...] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Pillar |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | w. 37 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maʿīn |
| Ancient site | Qrnw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Notes | It was generally accepted that the inscriptions Maʿīn 93-Maʿīn 98 were in the extra muros temple of ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm. However, Halévy's silence on this topic and the disappearance of the stelae suggested an original location inside the town (Bron 1998 a: 102), which was recently verified when Fontaine and Arbach there found the top of a pillar with an unknown inscription of the same kind (Fontaine and Arbach 2006: 115, fig. 26). |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
Maʿīn 93-Maʿīn 98 are long lists of the names of Minaean men and their foreign wives.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Bron 1998 a: 112, pl. 69 | Bron, François 1998. Maʿīn. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 3. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente] |
| Lemaire 1996 | Lemaire, André 1996. Histoire du Proche-Orient et chronologie sudarabique avant Alexandre. Pages 35-48 in Christian J. Robin and Iwona Gajda (eds). Arabia Antiqua. Early Origins of South Arabian States. Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Conservation and Exploitation of the Archaeological Heritage of the Arabian Peninsula held in the Palazzo Brancaccio, Rome, by IsMEO on 28th-30th May 1991. Rome: Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente. |