CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


Fontaine and Arbach 2006: 77, fig. 31

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodB
Textual typologyDedicatory text

GENERAL NOTES

We cannot exclude that the lacuna following the dedicatory verb contained also construction verbs, like in many inscriptions on the walls of Baraqish.

TEXT


   1  [... ... ]w-ʿmydʿ w-ʿmkrb bhny[ Ḥm]ʿṯt ḏ-Yfʿn ʾbhy [... ...] bhny Mʿdkrb bn ʾlyfʿ (Y)ṯʿ mlk Mʿnm s³lʾ [... ...]
   2  [... ... ʿ]ḍ w-mʿḏr-s¹ ʾbnm bn w(s¹)[ṭ] hgrn w-kl ʿḍ-s¹ w-t[qr-s¹ ... ... bn ʾ]s²rs¹ ʿd-s²qrn w-kwn s³l[ʾ]n w-mbny mḥfdn ḏ-Mlḥ bn q[... ...]
   3  [... ... ](w)-ʿlly b-gnʾ hgrn Qrnw ṯ[n](t)y ṣḥftny w-ṯn(y) m(ḥ)[... ...](m bl)qm w-ʿḍm w-tqrm w-ywm (b)[n]y w-gnʾ b-gnʾ hgrn Yṯl ḫlf[... ...]
   4  [... ...]-s¹ Ts²bm w-S²bmt w-mḥfdn Yġl w-y<w>m bny b-hgr[n ... ...](m) (Y)fʿn w-Hrn w-ʾḫṭb-s¹mn w-y[w]m bny b-Yṯl ʾbyt-s¹m ḥḍrn [... ...]
   5  [... ... ]ḥfr w-s¹nbṭ ʾbʾr-s¹m b-Y(ṯ)l b-ḏt kbkb w-bʾ(r)[ ... ...]r(n) w-b ʿfd w-tġr w-ywm ṣyr gdr hr(b) k-Nkrḥ w-mlk Mʿn w-Mʿn w-[... ...]
   6  [... ... ]w-ʾṭbnw-s¹m ʾs¹d (n)[... ...]t byth ʿṯtr[ ḏ-]Qbḍ l-ḥgn ḏ-tnʿm mzfn ʾbn w-kltny r[..] bnm dtn rtʿ w-s¹nḥy [... ...]
   7  [... ... ḏ-](Qbḍm) [w-](ʾ)s¹mʿh-(s¹)m w-[ʾbydʿ] (Y)ṯʿ w-Wqhʾl [Ry]m m[... ...]
   8  [... ... Y](ṯl) ʾhl ngw ḏn s¹ṭr[n] w[... ...] (k) ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm [... ...]
   9  [... ... ʿṯtr ](ḏ)-(Qbḍm) [... ... ʿṯ](tr)( ḏ)-Yhrq ʾḏbḥm b-ʾḥḍrh-s¹(m) [b-]ʿṯtr S²rqn w-b ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm w-W[dm ... ...]
  10  [ʾby]dʿ Yṯʿ [w-Wqhʾl Ry]m w-b-s²ʿbh-s¹m Mʿnm w-ḏ-Yṯl w-b ʿm-s¹m Mʿdkrb Rydn w-rṯd Whbʾl w-b[... ...]
  11  [... ... ʿ]ṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm w-(Wd)m [w-](Nkrḥ)m w-ʿṯtr ḏ-Yhrq w-ḏt Ns²qm w-kl (ʾl)ʾlt (Mʿ)nm w-Yṯl w-mlk Mʿnm w-s²ʿb-s¹m

Apparatus
6In B-M 10:ʾs¹d ngw ṣlwt.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  [... ...] and ʿmydʿ and ʿmkrb sons of Ḥmʿṯt of Yfʿn fathers of [... ...] sons of Mʿdkrb son of ʾlyfʿ Yṯʿ king of Maʿīn dedicated [... ...]
   2  [... ...] in wood, and its back wall in stone from the middle of the town, and all its wood and its cut stone [... ...] from foundation to top, and the dedication and the construction of the tower ḏ-Mlḥ were from [... ... ]
   3  [... ...] and he raised on the wall of the town of Qrnw two curtains and two [... ...] in limestone, wood and cut stone, and when he constructed and fortified on the wall of the town of Yṯl the gate
   4  [... ...] Tbs²m and S²bmt, and the tower Yġl, and when he constructed in the town [... ...] Yfʿn and Hrn, and their lower storeys (perimeter walls?), and when he constructed in Yṯl their houses of the holy festival (or, their temples of the holy festival?) [... ...]
   5  [... ...] excavated and dug their wells in Yṯl, because [... ...] and ?, and when he brought into cultivation the enclosed land of ? for Nkrḥ and the king of Maʿīn and Maʿīn and[... ...]
   6  [... ...] and their owners, the men who [... ...] of the temple of ʿṯtr [ḏ-]Qbḍm [... ...]
   7  [... ... ḏ-]Qbḍm [and] their witnesses and [... ...] Yṯʿ and Wqhʾl [... ...]
   8  [... ...] the clan to whom he notified this inscription and [... ...] for ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm [... ...]
   9  [... ...] ḏ-Qbḍm [... ...] ʿṯtr ḏ-Yhrq sacrifices during their festivals, by ʿṯtr S²rqn and by ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm, Wdm [... ...]
  10  [... ...] Yṯʿ [... ...] and by their tribe Maʿīn and ḏ-Yṯl, and by their uncle Mʿdkrb Rydn, and Whbʾl committed to and [... ...]
  11  [... ...] ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm, Wdm, Nkrḥm, ʿṯtr ḏ-Yhrq and ḏt Ns²qm and all the gods of Maʿīn and Yṯl and the king of Maʿīn and their tribe.
6"... the men who have notified (the construction of) the façade (cella?) ..." according to B-M's reading.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeInscription on architectural structure » Walls
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteBarāqish
Ancient siteYṯl
Geographical areaSouthern Jawf
CountryYemen
FoundIn situ
Archaeological contextUrban context: City walls
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Fontaine and Arbach 2006: 77, fig. 31Fontaine, Hugues and Arbach, Mounir 2006. Yémen. Cités d'écritures. Manosque: Le bec en l'air éditions.