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 |
The chronology of this text, which involves the topic of the decline of the reign of Maʿīn, is debated. The traditional theory placed it in period B, but recent studies suggest period C (see the cultural notes for further information). |
1 | the reading ʾlbʾ (Robin) is not sure. Perhaps ʾlḏʾ. |
English | |
1 Ys²rḥʾl son of ʾlbʾ and his sons Yḥrmʾl, Ḥrm, Mʿdkrb and Ḏrʾkrb, and ʾlbʾ son of Yḥrmʾl, and Ys²rḥʾl, S²rḥʾl and S²rḥwd, sons of Yḥrmʾl, and Ḥrm, and Hnʾ 2 son of Mʿdkrb, and Ḏrʾkrb, people of Ḍmrn, servants of Wdm S²hrn, dedicated to ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍ, Wdm, Nkrḥ and ʿṯtr ḏ-Yhrq all the construction and the wall of the curtain Tʿrm, on the wall of Yṯl, and 3 the people of Ḍmrn committed to the gods of Maʿīn and Yṯl their faculties, their lives, their possessions, their dedications and their inscriptions, against the one who may damage them and destroy them, during the reign of their lord Wqhʾl Yṯʿ and his son ʾlyfʿ Ys²r 4 the two kings of Maʿīn, and by his lord S²hr Ygl Yhrgb king of Qatabān. |
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 |
Robin 1998 b: 180-181, figs 2-3 | Robin, Christian J. 1998. La fin du Royaume de Maʿīn. Pages 177-188 in Rika Gyselen (ed.). Parfums d' Orient. (Res Orientales, 11). Bures-sur-Yvette: Groupe pour l'étude de la civilisation du Moyen-Orient. |
Wissmann 1976 a | Wissmann, Hermann von 1976. Die Geschichte des Sabäerreichs und der Feldzug des Aelius Gallus. Pages 308–544 in Hildegard Temporini (ed.). Politische Geschichte. (Provinzen und Randvölker: Mesopotamien, Armenien, Iran, Südarabien, Rom und der Ferne Osten). Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase (eds), Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt. Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung. II. 9/1. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter / New York: Walter de Gruyter. |
Pirenne 1956 | 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. |
Pirenne 1961 | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1961. Le royaume sud-arabe de Qatabān et sa datation, d'après l'archéologie et les sources classiques jusqu'au Périple de la Mer Erythrée. (Bibliothèque du Muséon, 48). Louvain: Publications universitaire. |
Pirenne 1990 | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1990. Les témoins écrit de la région de Shabwa et l'histoire. Jean-François Breton (ed.), Fouilles de Shabwa. 1. (Bibliothèque archéologique et historique, 134). Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner. [Institut français d'Archéologie du Proche-Orient] |