Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
English | |
1 Ms²km son of Ḥwhm 2 ḏ-Ḫdmn ḏ-Zltn, 3 Ḥywm son of Hwf 4 ḏ-[.]ynn, Mʾws¹ 5 son of ʿms¹ ḏ-Gzyn, 6 Whbn and ʾgr 7 son of Ṣbḥ ḏ-Mtʿ, 8 Nbṭ son of Whb ḏ-G- 9 zyn and ʾws¹n son of 10 [... ...] dedicated 11 to ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍ 12 god of Rṣf, the pillar 13 [... ...] by the gods of Ma- 14 ʿīn and Yathill and by Ḫ- 15 lkrb Ṣdq, king 16 of Maʿīn, and by their kabir 17 Ms²km ḏ-Ḫ- 18 dmn and by Maʿīn. |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Pillar |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 120, w. 40 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Maʿīn |
Ancient site | Qrnw |
Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm |
Link to site record |
Tawfīq 1951: pl. 40/84 | Tawfīq, Muḥammad 1951. Aṯār Maʿīn fī Ǧawf al-Yaman. (Les monuments de Maʿîn). (Publications de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire. Études sud-arabiques, 1). ʾal-Qāhira: ʾal-Maʿhad ʾal-ʿIlmī ʾal-Faransī lil- ʾĀthār ʾal-Sharqīyah. |
Schmidt 1982: pl. 60/a | Schmidt, Jürgen 1982. Der ʿAṯtar-Tempel bei Maʿīn. Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen, 1: 143-152. |
Bron 1998 a: 91-92, pl. 32 | Bron, François 1998. Maʿīn. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 3. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente] |