M 316 JSMin 11; RES 3341
Jaussen and Savignac 1914: pls LXXIII (photo), XCVII/11 (facsimile)
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Marginal Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 2.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary (conjectural) |
TEXT
1 [... ... ](ḏ)-ʿnn ʿlyt ḏt ṣḥftn w-s¹q(n)[ytn ... ...]
2 [... ...] ṣlwt-s¹ w-s¹qnyt-s¹ w-ʾs¹ṭr-(s¹) [ʿ]ṯt[r ... ...]
3 [... ...w-ʾlʾl]t Mʿn [bn]-(ḏ) yġrb-s¹(m) w-s¹n(kr) w-s¹fʾ[... ...]
4 [... ... b-yw]mh ʾlyfʿ Ys²r mlk Mʿnm b-kbr Ḥmy[... ...]
5 [... ...]ṣḥf(t)n w-s¹qn(y)tn ḏ-ʾbrhn ḏ-kbrh [... ...]
6 [... ...] s¹mʿm Wh(bʾl) bn Ḥyw ḏ-ʿmrtʿ
| 5 | [ywmnt ]ftḥn (Beeston 1956: 10 and consequently Garbini), but the text in the photo is clearly ṣḥftn. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...] on the basis of this document and the dedication [... ...] 2 [... ... and put] his document and his dedication and his inscriptions [under the protection] of ʿṯtr [... ...] 3 [... ...] and the gods of Maʿīn from anyone who would move them away and damage and remove [... ...] 4 [... ...] at the time of ʾlyfʿ Ys²r king of Maʿīn ,during the kabirate of Ḥmy[... ...] 5 [... ...] the document and the dedication in the month of ʾbrhn of the kabirate [... ...] 6 [... ...] as witness Whbʾl son of Ḥyw of the clan ʿmrtʿ [... ...] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 21, w. 42 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | al-ʿUlā |
| Ancient site | Ddn |
| Geographical area | Ḥijāz |
| Country | Saudi Arabia |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
This is one of the few Marginal Minaic texts mentioning a king, ʾlyfʿ Ys²r.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Müller, David H. 1889: pl. I/V | 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: 16, facsimile | Mordtmann, Johannes H. 1897. Beiträge zur minäischen Epigrafik. (Ergänzungshefte zur Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, 12. Semitistische Studien). Weimar: E. Felber. |
| Jaussen and Savignac 1914: 71, 256-261, pls LXXIII, XCVII/11 (facsimile) | Jaussen, Antonin J. and Savignac, M. Raphael 1914. Mission archéologique en Arabie. II. El-ʿEla, d'Hégra à Teima, Harrah de Tebouk. (Publications de la Société française des fouilles archéologiques, 2). Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner. |
| Pirenne 1956: pl. XXVII/d | 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. |
| Beeston 1956 | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1956. Epigraphic South Arabian calendars and dating. London: Luzac. |