M 334 RES 3358; Ja 2227
Renan 1891: no. 30; Jamme 1974 b: pl. 1
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Marginal Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary |
GENERAL NOTES
| RES curiously did not find the photograph of this inscription in Doughty's plates (Renan 1891), although the figure's number 30, mentioned by Müller, was correct. |
TEXT
1 [... ...]kl s²ʾm w-fd↯[yt ... ...]
2 [... ...] b-Mʿn↯[ ... ...]
3 [... ...]mḏ kl s²ʾm w-fdyt w-s¹↯[... ...]
4 [... ...](ʿ)[ʾ]lt ḏ-(nḍs¹)[... ...]
5 [... ...]n w-k-ʾws¹ ʿnn ʿlyt ḏt ṣ↯[ḥftn ... ...]
6 [... ... ]bn-kl ḏ-yġrb-s¹m[ ..]w↯[... ...]
| This text combines Jamme 1974's facsimile with Müller, David H. 1889's transcription (followed by RES and Garbini). | |
| 4 | Jamme read ...]ʾlt; the reading of ḏ-nḍs¹ (or, ḏ-nḍ-s¹?) is very uncertain. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ |
| Ancient site | Ḥgrʾ |
| Geographical area | Northwest Arabia |
| Country | Saudi Arabia |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Renan 1891: no. 30 | Renan, Ernest (ed.) 1891. Documents épigraphiques recueillis dans le Nord de l'Arabie par M. Charles Doughty. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale. |
| Jamme 1974 b: 12-13, pl. 1 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1974. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe VII. Washington. 2019/07/22; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A205580#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed] |
| Müller, David H. 1889 | 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. |