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 | Construction text - fragmentary (conjectural) |
1 | ... ... k]brn [ḥ]rym ḏrwy[.] (Mordtmann); [... ...]rym ḏ-rwy (Jaussen and Savignac). RES and consequently Garbini wrongly copied Jaussen and Savignac's transcription as ḏrww. |
2 | Jaussen and Savignac consider ʿhrhn and bkln as proper names. |
3 | ʾtḫ[... ...], according to the editors on the basis of the facsimile. |
5 | mlkt, according to the editors on the basis of the facsimile; ḏn ḥgrn (Müller and Mordtmann) while ḏn bḥrn (Jaussen and Savignac, so RES and Garbini). |
7 | on the facsimile, the text looks like ending with the word bḥrh, but the presence of the "parasitic" h should entail the continuation of the text. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 20, w. 46 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ |
Ancient site | Ḥgrʾ |
Geographical area | Northwest Arabia |
Country | Saudi Arabia |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Notes | The stone is inserted in the exterior wall of the castle. |
Link to site record |
Renan 1891: pl. LXI/29 | Renan, Ernest (ed.) 1891. Documents épigraphiques recueillis dans le Nord de l'Arabie par M. Charles Doughty. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale. |
Müller, David H. 1889: pl. II/XXV | Müller, David H. 1889. Epigraphische Denkmäler aus Arabien. (Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna. Philosophisch-historische Klasse. Denkschriften, 37/2). Vienna: In Commission bei F. Tempsky. |
Mordtmann 1897: 52, facsimile | Mordtmann, Johannes H. 1897. Beiträge zur minäischen Epigrafik. (Ergänzungshefte zur Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, 12. Semitistische Studien). Weimar: E. Felber. |
Jaussen and Savignac 1909: 255-259, fig. 105 (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. |
Pirenne 1956: pl. XXVII/b | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1956. Paléographie des inscriptions sud-arabes. Contribution à la chronologie et à l'histoire de l'Arabie du sud antique. (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België. Klasse der letteren, 26). Brussels: Paleis der Academiën. |