Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Marginal Minaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Jamme considers the inscription complete and does not restore the lacunae at the beginning and at the end of the lines. He also reads a name on the right low corner of the stone: Yḥmʾl (Jamme 2228b). | |
1 | [... ...]ḥfʾ[...]tr b[....](z )s¹m ymt [... ...] (RES and Garbini); [N]ḥfʾl[ s¹]tr ḏ-[ʾs²b t]ḥs¹m ymt s¹ḥrg (Jamme). |
2 | beginning: (t)bʿ (Jamme). The reading on the copies is S²ḥr, but we cannot exclude s²hr "month" followed by the name of the month (cf. M 356, l.10). ḏ[...]t ḏ-bkrh (Jaussen and Savignac); ḏ[.]t[...]bkrh (RES and Garbini); ḏ-ʿqb kbrh (Jamme). |
2-3 | k-Krbʾl (Jamme). |
3 | end: b-kl (Jaussen and Savignac). |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 22, w. 47 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ |
Ancient site | Ḥgrʾ |
Geographical area | Northwest Arabia |
Country | Saudi Arabia |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Link to site record |
Jaussen and Savignac 1909: 259-260, fig. 106 (facsimile), pl. X/4 | Jaussen, Antonin J. and Savignac, M. Raphael 1909. Mission archéologique en Arabie. (Mars-mai 1907). De Jérusalem au Hedjaz Médâin-Saleḥ. (Publications de la Société française des fouilles archéologiques, [1]). Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner. |
Jamme 1974 b: 13-14, pl. I | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1974. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe VII. Washington. 2019/07/22; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A205580#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed] |