M 322 JSMin 16; RES 3347
Jaussen and Savignac 1914: pls LXXIV (photo), XCIX/17 (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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TEXT
1 [... ...] w-(ḥ)[.]ht-s¹w (k)l qny[... ...]
2 [... ...](l) w-kl ʾrḍm kl [... ...]
3 [... ...]t(m) w-ḥẓy (w)-fq(f)q w-s¹br[r... ...]
4 [... ...]
| In Mordtmann's facsimile ll.1 and 3 are almost completely illegible. | |
| 1 | Jaussen and Savignac read ... w-f[.]ḥ-s¹ w-ḥght-s¹; RES and Garbini ...f(g)ḥ.s¹ w-ḥ(n)ht-s¹w. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Istanbul, Ancient Orient Museum |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 12, w. 37 |
| 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 |
| Notes | According to Jaussen and Savignac, the stone was reemployed in a house wall. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Müller, David H. 1889: pl. I/XII | 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: 36, facsimile | Mordtmann, Johannes H. 1897. Beiträge zur minäischen Epigrafik. (Ergänzungshefte zur Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, 12. Semitistische Studien). Weimar: E. Felber. |
| Jaussen and Savignac 1914: 269-270, pl. XCVIII/16 (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. |