DASI: Digital Archive for the Study of pre-islamic arabian Inscriptions: Epigraph details

Agostini 2021 b: 228, fig. 8
By kind permission of Missione Archeologica Italiana nella Repubblica dello Yemen (©MAIRY)

Language

Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic

Alphabet

Ancient South Arabian

Script typology

Monumental writing

Writing technique

Incision

Chronology

Period

Agostini hypothetically dates this inscription to the 4th-3rd c. BCE.

Apparatus

2	Agostini: [...]dm w[...]m w-ʿṯtr (ḏ-)[Qbḍ...]. Based on the reconstruction we propose for the scarcely readable text of the line, the integration of the epithet of ʿṯtr at the end of the theonyms' sequence is most probably Yhrq, as evidenced by parallels in the texts from Barāqish.

Italian
1 [... ...] 2 [... ...] Wdm and Nkrḥm and ʿṯtr ḏ-[Yhrq ... ...] 3 [... ...] on the walls of the city of Qrnw [... ...] 4 [... ...] and their descendants [... ...] 5 [... ...] and ʿṯtr ḏ-Yhrq and [... ...]

Deposit	Barāqish, Museum, Storeroom
Support type	Inscription on architectural structure » Walls
Material	Stone
Link to object record

Origin and provenance

Modern site	Barāqish
Ancient site	Yṯl
Geographical area	Southern Jawf
Country	Yemen
Archaeological context	Urban context: City walls
Notes	This inscribed stone block was found extra-muros in the collapses of the Minaean city-walls, in front of T45.
Link to site record

Agostini 2021 b: 227-228, fig. 8	Agostini, Alessio 2021. Lo scavo fuori mura un R44/45 a Barāqish. Le iscrizioni. Pages 224-228 in Sabina Antonini and Francesco G. Fedele (eds). Barāqish/Yathill (Yemen) 1986-2007. Volume 1: Excavations of Temple B and related research and restoration / Scavi del Tempio B e ricerche e restauri connessi. Oxford: Archaeopress.

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