YMN 13 al-Miʿsāl 18
ʿAbdallāh 1979 a: 59, fig. 13
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic | ||||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary |
TEXT
1 Mʿdkrb Yh[mgd ... ... b]ny Mʿhr w-ḏ-Ḫw—
2 ln bn [... ...] bytynyh[n]
3 Y[ḥḍ]r[ ... ...] w-Ḫwln ṣrw w-
4 [... ... ]hs²fq w-s²ʾmyt-hm—
5 [w ... ...] b-mwqrt hgr-hm—
6 w Wʿln w-[.. ]mḥrt-hmw[ ... ...]mw w-ms¹qt-hmw w-mṯʿd
7 [... ...]ṯ-hw w-[... ...] w-ʿrwn-hmw w-tbqlt-hm—
8 [w ... ...] mrʾ-hmw ʿṯtr S²rqn w-ʾlʾlt-hmw ʿm ḏ-Mbrqm bʿl
9 [ ... ...]w-ʿm ḏ-Dwnm bʿl ʿqbt Wʿln w-mnḍḥt byt-hmw
10 [ḏt Bʿd]n w-Ẓhrn w-s²ms¹-hmw ʿlyt bʿlt S²ḥrrm w-b-mqm w-rdʾ
11 mrʾ-hmw S²mr Yhrʿs² mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn w-Ḥḍrmwt w-Ymnt w-b-rdʾ
12 w-ʾḫyl nẓr-hmw w-s²ʿb-hmw Rdmn w-Ḫwln wrḫ-hw ḏ-Mʿn ḏ-b-ḫrfn
13 [ḏ-]l-ts¹ʿt w-ʾrbʿ mʾtm
| 1 | Yhmgd integrated on YMN 14,2. |
| 3 | Yḥḍr integrated on ʿAbadān 1, 33, Ja 695, 3, Ra 30, 1. etc. |
| 11 | for Ymnt see Robin 2013: 131-133. |
| 12 | for nẓr see Beeston 1981 c: 70. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Mʿdkrb Yhmgd [... ...] banū Mʿhr and ḏ-Ḫwln 2 ibn [... ...] the two houses 3 Yḥḍr [... ...] and Ḫwln cut and 4 [... ...] satiated with rain their northern parts 5 [... ...] with rock-boring their town 6 Wʿln and their irrigation system [... ...] their irrigated land and territory 7 [... ...] their wooded lands and their plantations 8 [... ...] their Lord ʿṯtr S²rqn, their gods ʿm ḏ-Mbrqm, the Master of 9 [... ...] and ʿm ḏ-Dwnm, the Master of the fortress of Wʿln and the protectory deities of their house 10 ḏt Bʿdn, Ẓhrn and their solar deity ʿlyt, the Lady of S²ḥrrm and with the power and the help 11 of their lord S²mr Yhrʿs², king of Sabaʾ, ḏu-Raydān, Ḥaḍramawt, Ymnt and with the help 12 and the mights of their adherents and their tribe Rdmn and Ḫwln; the month ḏ-Mʿn in the year 13 four hundred and nine. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Rock inscription |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | al-Miʿsāl |
| Ancient site | Wʿln |
| Geographical area | al-Bayḍāʾ |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | In situ |
| Archaeological context | Agricultural irrigation context |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| ʿAbdallāh 1979 a: 45-50 (photo p. 59) | ʿAbdallāh, Yūsuf M. 1979. Mudawwana al-nuqūš al-yamaniyya al-qadīma. Dirāsāt Yamaniyya, 2: 47-75. |
| Müller, Walter W. 2010: 40 | Müller, Walter W. 2010. Sabäische Inschriften nach Ären datiert. Bibliographie, Texte und Glossar. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 53). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. |
| Beeston 1981 c | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1981. Notes on Old South Arabian Lexicography XII. Le Muséon, 94: 55-73. |
| Robin 2013 | Robin, Christian J. 2013. À propos de Ymnt et Ymn: « nord » et « sud », « droite » et « gauche », dans les inscriptions de l'Arabie antique. Pages 119-140 in Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, Catherine Fauveaud and Iwona Gajda (eds). Entre Carthage et l’Arabie heureuse. Mélanges offerts à François Bron. (Orient & Méditerranée, 12). Paris: de Boccard. |