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 | ||
Royal inscription | Yes |
1 | In RES the text begins with [Mʿd]krb mlk ... At the middle of the line: S²hhrm ʿln bn Ṣdqʾl. |
2 | At the beginning: RES reads ʿṯtr S²rqn instead of S¹yn. At the middle: [b-ʾḫwt ʾ]ḫ-s¹. At the end: w-b ʾls¹mʿ instead of w-wḍʾ ʾls¹mʿ; Bron reads: w-b ʾ](ḫh)-s¹, but ʾḫh is a plural. |
2-3 | In RES the text ends with b-ʾḏn ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm. |
English | |
1 ʾls¹mʿ Ḏbyn, son of Mlkkrb, king of Ḥaḍramawt, dedicated to ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm the tower Ḫrf, tower that his uncle S²hrm ʿlhn, son of Ydʿʾl, king of Ḥaḍramawt, built; 2 by ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm and by S¹yn and by Wdm and by Nkrḥm and by his brother ʾbydʿ Yṯʿ, king of Maʿin and by his tribe Maʿin; and ʾls¹mʿ dedicated to ʿṯtr ḏ-Q- 3 bḍm, to S¹yn, to Wdm and to Nkrḥm himself, his faculties, his offspring and his possession. |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Walls |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 40, w. 270 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Maʿīn |
Ancient site | Qrnw |
Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Archaeological context | Urban context: City walls |
Link to site record |
Tawfīq 1951: pls 34-37/71-77 | Tawfīq, Muḥammad 1951. Aṯār Maʿīn fī Ǧawf al-Yaman. (Les monuments de Maʿîn). (Publications de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire. Études sud-arabiques, 1). ʾal-Qāhira: ʾal-Maʿhad ʾal-ʿIlmī ʾal-Faransī lil- ʾĀthār ʾal-Sharqīyah. |
Pirenne 1956: pl. XXXII/a | 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. |
Bron 1998 a: 48-49, pl. 14 | Bron, François 1998. Maʿīn. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 3. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente] |