M 185 RES 2965; B-M 241
Fakhry 1952: pl. XIII; Robin 1979 a: 192, fig. 5
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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 | Construction text |
GENERAL NOTES
| Fakhry records the photo in his plate as taken at Ṣirwāḥ, but one can easily recognize M 185. Like other inscriptions on the walls of Baraqish, this one cannot be defined merely as a construction text: the list of the buildings is introduced by a formulaic expression which, together with the construction verbs (bny and s¹ḥdṯ) displays the dedicatory verb (s³lʾ). |
TEXT
1 Yklʾl w-bn-s¹w ʾlwhb w-ʾls²rḥ bhny Ġwyṯ ḏ-Ḥfd ʾhl Gbʾn bny w-s³lʾ w-s¹ḥdṯ b-gnʾ hgrn Yṯl kl tẓwrt mḥfdn ḏ-Bqrn w-tẓwr ṣḥft S¹lf ʾlhn ḏt ḏ-Ndbn w-tẓwr ṣḥf—
2 th ḏ-S²ftn qdmm w-mʿḏrm ʿḍm w-tqrm w-blqm k-ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm w-Wdm w-Nkrḥm w-ʿṯtr ḏ-Yhrq w-ḏt Ns²qm b-frʿ frʿ k-ʾlʾlth Mʿnm w-ḏt Ns²qm w-b-ḏ mʾd bn ʿmh-s¹m w-s¹trḍw ʾhlt mbntn b-frʿh-s¹m |
3 b-ywmh ʾbkrb Ṣdq mlk Mʿnm w-rṯd Yklʾl w-bhn-s¹w ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm w-Wdm w-Nkrḥm w-ʿṯtr ḏ-Yhrq w-ḏt Ns²qm w-kl ʾlʾlt Mʿnm w-Yṯl ʾnfs¹-s¹m w-ʾʾḏn-s¹m w-ʾqny-s¹m w-ʾs³lʾ-s¹m w-ʾs¹ṭr-s¹m bn-ḏ ys¹nkr-s¹m w-yms³r-s¹m w-ys¹fʾy-s¹m bn mqmh-s¹m
4 w-kwn mbny w-ʾs³lʾ bny w-s³lʾ ʾhl Ḥfd ḏ-ngw ḏn-s¹ṭrn b-m ṯhmnhy w-mʾt rb /180/ ḏ-whb ʾhl Ḥfd bn mbnyh w-ʿḏbhty tẓwrt mḥfdn w-ṣḥftnhn
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Yklʾl and his sons ʾlwhb and ʾls²rḥ, sons of Ġwyṯ of the family Ḥfd, people of Gbʾn, constructed, dedicated and restored on the city wall of the town Yṯl, all the walls of the tower ḏ-Bqrn, and the wall of the curtain of S¹lf the god (?) that of ḏ-Ndbn, and the wall of the curtain 2 of ḏ-S²ftn, the façade and the back wall, in wood, cut stone and limestone, for ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm, Wdm, Nkrḥm, ʿṯtr ḏ-Yhrq and ḏt Ns²qm, with the tribute they had to pay for the gods of Maʿīn and for ḏt Ns²qm, and with what they added from them (from their resources), and they were satisfied with these constructions with their tribute 3 in the day of ʾbkrb Ṣdq, king of Maʿīn. Yklʾl and his sons committed to ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm, Wdm, Nkrḥm, ʿṯtr ḏ-Yhrq, ḏt Ns²qm and all the gods of Maʿīn and Yṯl their lives, their faculties, their possessions, their dedications and their inscriptions against the one who may damage them, remove them and take away them from their place; 4 and they are the construction and the dedications which the people Ḥfd constructed and dedicated, (Ḥfd) who notified this inscription, with hundred and eighty rb (180), which the people Ḥfd gave concerning the construction and the restorations of the walls of the tower and the two curtains. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Walls |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Barāqish |
| Ancient site | Yṯl |
| Geographical area | Southern Jawf |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | In situ |
| Archaeological context | Urban context: City walls |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Fakhry 1952: iii, pl. XIII | Fakhry, Ahmed 1952. An archaeological Journey to Yemen (March-May 1947). (3 vols), Cairo: Government Press. |
| Robin 1979 a: 192, fig. 5 | Robin, Christian J. 1979. Mission archéologique et épigraphique française au Yémen du Nord en automne 1978. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres: 174-202. |