M 350 A JSMin 1; Ry 49; RES 3602 A
M 350 A
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Marginal Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 3 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary |
TEXT
1 [... ...]
2 [... ... Nḥ](s¹)ṭb b-ʾḥly Whbn w-b ʾḥl(y) [... ...]
3 [... ...]ḏ-(y)mttʿ(((Y)mttʿ)) b-s¹ Wd w-Nḥs¹ṭb w-s¹t[... ...]
4 [... ...]l ḥghty Mʿn w-s¹twṯq Wd w-Nḥ[s¹ṭb ... ...]
5 [... ...](ḏ)-kl qny Whbn ḏ-Qbt w-kl ḏ-yqn[y ... ...]
6 [... ...]w-kl ʾrḍm w-Whbn ms¹mtʿm w-[... ...]
7 [... ... Nḥ]s¹ṭb w-qny-s¹w k-Wd rytm w-[... ...]
| 1 | the editors read [..](y)[... ...]b(k)[..]s¹[... ...]. |
| 3 | on the interpretation of ḏ-ymttʿ see M 333. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Bruxelles, Musée du Cinquantenaire, O.504 |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 32, w. 57 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ |
| Ancient site | Ḥgrʾ |
| Geographical area | Northwest Arabia |
| Country | Saudi Arabia |
| Found | Reemployed |
| Notes | When Jaussen and Savignac copied the epigraph, it was reemployed in a well's wall; a year later it was sent to Brussels. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927: 200 | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Première série. Le Muséon, 40: 161-200. |
| Jaussen and Savignac 1909: 250-3, fig. 1 (facsimile), pl. X/1 | Jaussen, Antonin J. and Savignac, M. Raphael 1909. Mission archéologique en Arabie. (Mars-mai 1907). De Jérusalem au Hedjaz Médâin-Saleḥ. (Publications de la Société française des fouilles archéologiques, [1]). Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner. |