al-Saʿīd 2002/2009
al-Saʿīd 2009: fig. 44
- al-Saʿīd 2009: fig. 44
- al-Saʿīd 2002 b: 57, fig. 1
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 | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| The editor published this text as four separate inscriptions (Inscriptions ns. 1-4). |
TEXT
[... ...]
1 [... ...] (ḏ)-(ʾhl )(ʾṣ)[rm s¹k]—
2 [rb] w-ḫs³r S¹l(m)[t bn]
3 [Ġz]t S¹lm bn ʾr[s²]
4 [ḏ-R]dʿ ḏ-ʾhl Gbʾ(n)
5 s¹krb w-ḫs³r Mnk(ṣ)
6 bn Ddn Wfy b—
7 [n] Mʾdn ḏ-Bwbn ḏ-
8 (ʾ)hl Ḍrḥ s¹krb w-
9 ḫs³r Nwlt bn Nt—
10 (hy) Yʾws¹ʾl bn
11 [... ...] (ḏ)-
12 [ʾhl ... ...]
| 1 | al-Saʿīd reads ...ḏbw. [ḏʾhl ...s¹] |
| 5 | al-Saʿīd reads Mnkṣ, but on the photo the reading is uncertain between a letter ṣ and a letter ḫ. Since it seems that there is space for a lacuna of two letters at the beginning of l.7, the name could be uncomplete. |
| 11-12 | The text continued below l. 11, but the pillar is broken. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
[... ...] 1 [... ...] of the clan ʾṣrm has married 2 and paid the price for S¹lmt from 3 Ġzt. S¹lm son of ʾrs² 4 ḏ-Rdʿ of the clan Gbʾn 5 has married and paid the price for Mnk[.] 6 from Ddn. Wfy son 7 of Mʿdn ḏ-Bwbn 8 of the clan Ḍrḥ has married and 9 paid the price for Nwlt from 10 Nthy. Yʾws¹ʾl son of 11 [... ...] of 12 [the clan ... ...] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Riyāḍ, King Saud University Museum |
| Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Pillar |
| Material | Stone |
| 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 text adds new names to the lists of the foreign wives of the Minaean traders (Maʿīn 93-Maʿīn 98).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| al-Saʿīd 2002 b: 57-60, fig. 1 | al-Saʿīd, Saʿīd F. 2002. Zawǧāt al-maʿīniyyīn al-aǧnabiyyāt fī ḍawʾ nuṣūṣ ǧadīdah. Adūmātū, 5: 53-72. |
| al-Saʿīd 2009: 100-105, fig. 44 | al-Saʿīd, Saʿīd F. 2009. Les épouses étrangères des Minéens. Pages 93-114 in Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet (ed.). Femmes, cultures et sociétés dans les civilisations méditerranéennes et proche-orientales de l'antiquité. (Topoi Orient-Occident. Supplément, 10). Lyon: Maison de l'orient méditerranéen-Jean Pouilloux. |