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) |
5 | [ywmnt ]ftḥn (Beeston 1956: 10 and consequently Garbini), but the text in the photo is clearly ṣḥftn. |
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 [... ...] |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 21, w. 42 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | al-ʿUlā |
Ancient site | Ddn |
Geographical area | Ḥijāz |
Country | Saudi Arabia |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Link to site record |
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. |