Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Marginal Minaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 3.5 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary |
The text is rich in architectural lexicon, but we cannot exclude that it is a legal text (see l. 6 ʾhl ngw"). |
L.2: Garbini wrongly writes ġ instead of g (Beeston 1975 b: 269). |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 12, w. 52 |
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/IV | 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: 11, facsimile | Mordtmann, Johannes H. 1897. Beiträge zur minäischen Epigrafik. (Ergänzungshefte zur Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, 12. Semitistische Studien). Weimar: E. Felber. |
Jaussen and Savignac 1914: 253-256, pl. XCVI/10 (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. |
Beeston 1975 b | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1975. Review of Garbini, Giovanni 1974. Iscrizioni sudarabiche. i. Iscrizioni minee. (Istituto universitario orientale di Napoli. Ricerche, 10). Naples: Istituto universitario orientale. Journal of Semitic Studies, 20: 266-270. |