M 290 JSMin 213; Ry 48; RES 3283
Jaussen and Savignac 1914: 103/213 (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 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary (conjectural) |
TEXT
1 [... ...]bn s²ʾm-s¹ [... ...]( bhn)[... ...]
2 [... ...] k-Ys²rḥʾl ḏ-Ġrbt kl s²ʾ(m)[... ...]
3 [... ...]t ṣḥftn w-ṣlwtn w-Ys²rḥ[ʾl ... ...]
4 [... ...]
| 1 | the editors suggest reading [... ...](ġ)bn at the beginning of the line and integrating w-fdyt-s¹ at the centre of the line. |
| 2-3 | Mordtmann 1897 and Rhodokanakis 1917: 44 suggest at the beginning of l.2: [s¹wfy] or [mnw] k-Ys²rḥʾl; at the end: s²ʾm[-s¹ w-fdyt-s¹; at the beginning of l.3: ʿnn ʿlyt ḏ]t. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Bruxelles, Musée du Cinquantenaire, O.714 |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 34, w. 14 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | al-ʿUlā |
| Ancient site | Ddn |
| Geographical area | Ḥijāz |
| Country | Saudi Arabia |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Notes | When Doughty saw the inscription (Renan 1891: pl. XVI, fol. 30, bad facsimile), it was reemployed in a house wall in the south area of the town (h. 165, w. 36). It had already disappeared when Jaussen and Savignac later visited the site, but a fragment is kept in Brussels. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927: 200 | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Première série. Le Muséon, 40: 161-200. |
| Müller, David H. 1889: pl. I/VI | 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: 22, facsimile | Mordtmann, Johannes H. 1897. Beiträge zur minäischen Epigrafik. (Ergänzungshefte zur Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, 12. Semitistische Studien). Weimar: E. Felber. |
| Jaussen and Savignac 1914: 361-362, pls LXXVIII, CIII/213 (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. |
| Pirenne 1956: pl. XXVII/e | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1956. Paléographie des inscriptions sud-arabes. Contribution à la chronologie et à l'histoire de l'Arabie du sud antique. (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België. Klasse der letteren, 26). Brussels: Paleis der Academiën. |
| Rhodokanakis 1917 | Rhodokanakis, Nikolaus 1917. Studien zur Lexikographie und Grammatik des Altsüdarabischen. II Heft. (Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, 185/3). Vienna: Alfred Hölder. |