YM 28488 B
Arbach and Audouin 2007: 58
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Legal text |
GENERAL NOTES
| Text written below YM 28488 A. |
TEXT
1 b-m ḥg Wd wfʾ ʾbqwm w-N—
2 bṭkrb s²wʿy Wd ʿs²q w-ms²q—
3 ṣ ḏbḥ Wd w-ḏ-Qb(ḍ) b-ʾḥḍr w-
4 kyl kyl ʾlʾlt Mʿn w-kyl
5 | s²ym Wd k-s²wʿy Wdm |
TRANSLATIONS
| French | |
1 Selon l'ordonnance de Wadd, Abīqawwām et 2 Nabaṭkarib, officiants de Wadd, ont financé (?) l'exécution et le partage 3 du sacrifice de Wadd et de dhū-Qabḍ durant les fêtes et 4 ont mesuré la part des divinités de Maʿīn et la part 5 que Wadd a promise aux officiants de Wadd. |
| Bron 2010 b: 43 | Bron, François 2010. Quelques nouvelles inscriptions du Jawf. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 21: 41-45. |
| English | |
1 So has ordered Wd that has to fund ʾbqwm and 2 Nbṭkrb the two officiants of Wd the drilling and the ms²qṣ 3 They must sacrifice to Wd and ḏ-Qbḍ on the holy square 4 and decorate the divinities of Maʿīn and decorations 5 have been set for Wd by the two officiants of Wd. |
| Arbach and Audouin 2007: 58-59 | Arbach, Mounir and Audouin, Rémy 2007. Collection of Epigraphic and Archaeological Artifacts from al-Jawf Sites. Ṣanʿâʾ National Museum. 2. Ṣanʿāʾ: UNESCO-SFD / Ṣanʿāʾ: National Museum. [Text in English and Arabic] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 28488 |
| Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with framework |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 117.5, w. 64, th. 11.5 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maʿīn |
| Ancient site | Qrnw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
This legal inscription is quite interesting: the text is similar to the decree written above, but - instead of the king - the priests of Wd are the subjects of the edict (for the interpretation of this text and of its parallel YM 28488 A, see Bron 2010 b: 43).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach and Audouin 2007: 58-59, cat. 33 | Arbach, Mounir and Audouin, Rémy 2007. Collection of Epigraphic and Archaeological Artifacts from al-Jawf Sites. Ṣanʿâʾ National Museum. 2. Ṣanʿāʾ: UNESCO-SFD / Ṣanʿāʾ: National Museum. [Text in English and Arabic] |
| Bron 2010 b: 43 | Bron, François 2010. Quelques nouvelles inscriptions du Jawf. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 21: 41-45. |
| Rossi 2022: 350, 352-353, 491, fig. 66 | Rossi, Irene 2022. The city-states of the Jawf at the dawn of Ancient South Arabian history (8th-6th centuries BCE). II. Corpus of the inscriptions. (Arabia Antica, 17/2). Roma: «L'Erma» di Bretschneider. |