Maʿīn 34 M 31; RES 2776
Bron 1998 a: pl. 26
- Bron 1998 a: pl. 26
- By kind permission of British Museum
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 6 | ||
| Chronology |
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GENERAL NOTES
| Bron 1998 a: 67 mentions the inscription Gl 312 (Wissmann 1976 a: 390), that seems to be a mixing of the two lines of our text with another missed line, testifying the name of a king: l.1: Ḥfnm Yṯʿ bn Ḫlkrb mlk Mʿ-; l.2: n bny l-ys¹bḥr bʿ- l.3: gwhty w-zlt ḏn nkrh. |
TEXT
1 (l)-ys¹bḥr Nkrḥ bʿ[l ... ... ṣ]—
2 lwthy w-zlt ḏn [... ...]
| 1-2 | Bron translates: "Que Nakraḥ, seigneur [de ...] choisisse ... les deux façades et l'escalier (?) de ce [... ...]. Jamme 1971: 21 translates line 1: "qu'il craigne Nkrḥ". Jamme is right in believing that there is no obligation to consider the god as the subject of the verb. The normal meaning of ys¹bḥr is "to dig a well". |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 125109=1887,0629.4 |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 20, w. 44.3, th. 9.8 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maʿīn |
| Ancient site | Qrnw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Pirenne 1956: pl. XXXII/c | 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: 66-67, pl. 26 | 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] |
| Jamme 1971 b | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1971. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe II. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A206497#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed] |
| 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. |