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 |
We cannot exclude that the lacuna following the dedicatory verb contained also construction verbs, like in many inscriptions on the walls of Baraqish. |
6 | In B-M 10:ʾs¹d ngw ṣlwt. |
English | |
1 [... ...] and ʿmydʿ and ʿmkrb sons of Ḥmʿṯt of Yfʿn fathers of [... ...] sons of Mʿdkrb son of ʾlyfʿ Yṯʿ king of Maʿīn dedicated [... ...] 2 [... ...] in wood, and its back wall in stone from the middle of the town, and all its wood and its cut stone [... ...] from foundation to top, and the dedication and the construction of the tower ḏ-Mlḥ were from [... ... ] 3 [... ...] and he raised on the wall of the town of Qrnw two curtains and two [... ...] in limestone, wood and cut stone, and when he constructed and fortified on the wall of the town of Yṯl the gate 4 [... ...] Tbs²m and S²bmt, and the tower Yġl, and when he constructed in the town [... ...] Yfʿn and Hrn, and their lower storeys (perimeter walls?), and when he constructed in Yṯl their houses of the holy festival (or, their temples of the holy festival?) [... ...] 5 [... ...] excavated and dug their wells in Yṯl, because [... ...] and ?, and when he brought into cultivation the enclosed land of ? for Nkrḥ and the king of Maʿīn and Maʿīn and[... ...] 6 [... ...] and their owners, the men who [... ...] of the temple of ʿṯtr [ḏ-]Qbḍm [... ...] 7 [... ... ḏ-]Qbḍm [and] their witnesses and [... ...] Yṯʿ and Wqhʾl [... ...] 8 [... ...] the clan to whom he notified this inscription and [... ...] for ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm [... ...] 9 [... ...] ḏ-Qbḍm [... ...] ʿṯtr ḏ-Yhrq sacrifices during their festivals, by ʿṯtr S²rqn and by ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm, Wdm [... ...] 10 [... ...] Yṯʿ [... ...] and by their tribe Maʿīn and ḏ-Yṯl, and by their uncle Mʿdkrb Rydn, and Whbʾl committed to and [... ...] 11 [... ...] ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm, Wdm, Nkrḥm, ʿṯtr ḏ-Yhrq and ḏt Ns²qm and all the gods of Maʿīn and Yṯl and the king of Maʿīn and their tribe. |
6 | "... the men who have notified (the construction of) the façade (cella?) ..." according to B-M's reading. |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Walls |
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 |
Fontaine and Arbach 2006: 77, fig. 31 | Fontaine, Hugues and Arbach, Mounir 2006. Yémen. Cités d'écritures. Manosque: Le bec en l'air éditions. |