M 315 RES 3340
Müller, David H. 1889: pl. I/IV (photo); Jaussen and Savignac 1914: pl. XCVI/10 (facsimile)
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Marginal Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 3.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary |
GENERAL NOTES
| The text is rich in architectural lexicon, but we cannot exclude that it is a legal text (see l. 6 ʾhl ngw"). |
TEXT
1 [... ...]m[... ...]w[... ...]
2 [... ...]l-mʾd b-byth Wd bn (g)ntn w-qdmh[... ...]
3 [... ...]ṣrḥhtm w-kl ḫymm w-ʿlwhm w-ʾs¹t[... ...]
4 [... ...]s¹trt ḍfw ḫwht-s¹m w-mḏbḥt-s¹m w-[... ...]
5 [... ...]kl-ḏ ṣdq b-s¹ ḍf(w) mgdlnhn w-ḥ[... ...]
6 [... ...] ʾhl ngw[... ...]
| L.2: Garbini wrongly writes ġ instead of g (Beeston 1975 b: 269). |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 12, w. 52 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | al-ʿUlā |
| Ancient site | Ddn |
| Geographical area | Ḥijāz |
| Country | Saudi Arabia |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
The text mentions some works of enlargement to the temple of Wd. Not every term is clear in its meaning, but we can see that the temple included a garden, curtains of the wall, windows (or open spaces?) and towers.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Müller, David H. 1889: pl. I/IV | Müller, David H. 1889. Epigraphische Denkmäler aus Arabien. (Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna. Philosophisch-historische Klasse. Denkschriften, 37/2). Vienna: In Commission bei F. Tempsky. |
| Mordtmann 1897: 11, facsimile | Mordtmann, Johannes H. 1897. Beiträge zur minäischen Epigrafik. (Ergänzungshefte zur Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, 12. Semitistische Studien). Weimar: E. Felber. |
| Jaussen and Savignac 1914: 253-256, pl. XCVI/10 (facsimile) | Jaussen, Antonin J. and Savignac, M. Raphael 1914. Mission archéologique en Arabie. II. El-ʿEla, d'Hégra à Teima, Harrah de Tebouk. (Publications de la Société française des fouilles archéologiques, 2). Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner. |
| Beeston 1975 b | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1975. Review of Garbini, Giovanni 1974. Iscrizioni sudarabiche. i. Iscrizioni minee. (Istituto universitario orientale di Napoli. Ricerche, 10). Naples: Istituto universitario orientale. Journal of Semitic Studies, 20: 266-270. |