HSM 1936.1.19
By kind permission of Harvard Semitic Museum
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 2.5-3 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary |
GENERAL NOTES
| F. Bron suggests the possibility that this fragment and the text M 348 may be fragments of the same inscription (reported in Huehnergard). |
TEXT
1 s²kn ftḥ w-s¹ṯb w-s¹ḥr[ ... ...]
2 n w-kl ʾs³wd Mʿnm [... ...]
3 w-kl s²ʿbn Mʿnm hn s²[... ...]
4 bn rydn w-ṣrḥ b-mnk[... ... Wq]—
5 (hʾl) (Ṣdq)( mlk )(Mʿn)[ ... ...]
| 2 | At the end of the line, Huehnergard reads (m)[... ...] |
| 4 | A possible integration is b-mnk[ṯn (see as-Sawdāʾ 32/2). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Thus has (PN) decreed, ordained, and enacted [... ...] 2 and all the councillors of Maʿīn [... ...] 3 and the entire tribe of Maʿīn that [... ...] 4 from the lower part and the vestibule in (?) [... ...] Wqhʾl 5 Ṣdq king of Maʿīn [... ...] |
| Following Huehnergard. | |
| 4 | If the supposed integration at the end of the line was correct, we would have a phrase like: "for the violation". |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Cambridge MA, Harvard Semitic Museum, 1936.1.19 |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 27.1, w. 17.5, th. 9.1 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Huehnergard 2000: 201-203 (photo) | Huehnergard, John 2000. Old south Arabian inscriptions in the Harvard Semitic Museum. Pages 196-206 in Lawrence E. Stager, Joseph A. Greene and Michael D. Coogan (eds). The archaeology of Jordan and beyond. Essays in honor of James A. Sauer. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. |