Maʿīn 95 M 394+M 398; RES 2773, 1-5
Bron 1998 a: 113-114, pls 70-71
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
| M 394=RES 2773, 1-5. 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 [.]kr bn ʿzz ḏ-Yṯt
2 [ḏ-]ʾhl Ns¹wr s¹krb w-
3 ḫs³r Ḍbʿ bn Wgʾ |
4 ʿbd bn Whbʾl ḏ-Ġrn
5 ḏ-ʾhl Mwqh s¹krb w-
6 [ḫ]s³r T[...]yw bn Ġzt
7 [...] bn Yḥmʾl ḏ-Ġr—
8 [n ḏ-ʾ]hl Mwqh s¹krb w-
9 [ḫ]s³r Ṭb bn Ġzt
10 [..]m bn Frḫ ḏ-S²ʿṯm
11 [ḏ-]ʾhl Gbʾn s¹krb w-
12 [ḫ]s³r Ḫbbt bn Yṯrb
13 Rṯdʾl bn ʿ[b]d ḏ-Ẓ—
14 yrn ḏ-ʾhl Mwqh s¹k—
15 rb w-ḫs³r Mrʾt bn
16 Ddn S¹ʿlṭ bn Bs¹ln
17 ḏ-Ḥḏkt ḏ-ʾhl Qrn s¹k—
18 rb w-ḫs³r ʿrzt bn T—
19 mlḥ Bs¹l bn Wdd ḏ-S¹—
20 yl ḏ-ʾhl ʿlyʾl s¹kr—
21 b w-ḫs³r ʾḫtmw bn M—
22 ṣr |
23 Wdd[... ... ]ḥs²[..]
24 ḏ-ʾhl[ ... ... s¹krb] w-ḫ—
25 s³r [... ...]t |
26 Rṯd [... ...]
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [.]kr son of ʿzz ḏ-Yṯt 2 of the clan Ns¹wr has married and 3 paid the price for Ḍbʿ from Wgʾ. |
| The formulaic expression "married and paid the price for (the fiancée)" is repeated throughout the inscription. Only the names vary. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Pillar |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | w. 36 |
| 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: 113-114, pls 70-71 | 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. |