DASI: Digital Archive for the Study of pre-islamic arabian Inscriptions: Epigraph details

Language

Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic

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Ancient South Arabian

Script typology

Monumental writing

Writing technique

Incision

Chronology

Period

Textual typology

Construction text - fragmentary (conjectural)

The inscription might also be a dedicatory text (cf. e.g. B-M 256).

Apparatus

2	Possible integration mʿ[ḏrn ... ...] (see M 151).
3	w-mrḍwh(w) (Arbach), but all the occurrences of the word are: mrḍwhy.

English
1 Mʿdkrb and his sons Ḥmʿṯt and Whbʾl [... ...] 2 .. in stone, in wood and in limestone, the front façade and [... ...] 3 the construction of the tower, by the order of Wdm and the satisfaction of [... ... and Wqh]- 4 ʾl Rym, the two kings of Maʿīn, and by their tribe Maʿīn [... ...] 5 and Mʿdkrb and his sons committed the tower [... ...]

Support type	Inscription on architectural structure
Material	Stone
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Origin and provenance

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