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 | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
English | |
1 [... ...] when (they?) sacrificed to ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍ and Wdm 25 victims, and when (they?) sacrificed to ʿṯtr ḏ-Yhrq during His festivals 3 victims [... ...] 2 [... ... ]ḏ-Yhrq, and by all the gods of Maʿīn and by Wqhʾl Rym and his son Ḥfn Ṣdq, the two kings of Maʿīn, and by Wddʾl ḏ-Yfʿn, kbr of [... ...] 3 [... ...]m and their inscriptions, (to) all the gods of Maʿīn and the king of Maʿīn and Maʿīn and ḏ-Yṯl, against the one who may remove them and against the one who may take them away and against the one who[... ...] |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Barāqish |
Ancient site | Yṯl |
Geographical area | Southern Jawf |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Archaeological context | Urban context: City walls |
Link to site record |
Wissmann 1976 a: 373, fig. 16 (facsimile) | Wissmann, Hermann von 1976. Die Geschichte des Sabäerreichs und der Feldzug des Aelius Gallus. Pages 308–544 in Hildegard Temporini (ed.). Politische Geschichte. (Provinzen und Randvölker: Mesopotamien, Armenien, Iran, Südarabien, Rom und der Ferne Osten). Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase (eds), Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt. Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung. II. 9/1. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter / New York: Walter de Gruyter. |