Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Legal text |
English | |
1 Put under the protection of ʿṯtr S²rqn, ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm, Wdm, Nkrḥm, 2 ʿṯtr god of Yhrq, ʿṯtr ḏ-Ḏbn, of all the tribal gods, 3 of the god and the patron, and the pact and the alliance, the temple, its construction corps, its boundary 4 walls and their buildings, against anyone who may damage them in war and in peace. |
Gnoli 1993 | Gnoli, Gherardo 1993. Shaqab al-Manaṣṣa. Con diciotto tavole fuori testo. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 2. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente] |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Shaqab al-Manaṣṣa |
Ancient site | Yhrq (?) |
Geographical area | Southern Jawf |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʿṯtr ḏ-Yhrq |
Link to site record |
Gnoli 1993: 84-86, pl. 11 | Gnoli, Gherardo 1993. Shaqab al-Manaṣṣa. Con diciotto tavole fuori testo. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 2. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente] |