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 |
1 | w-(ʾl)[whb] (RES and Garbini). |
2 | the editors read Fʾ]mn ftḥ bn-kl ḥg Nkrḥ ftḥ ʾh[l .... |
3 | the editors integrate [w-ʾlwhb] at the beginning of the line. |
4 | the editors read f]rʿ w-s¹ydʿ w-s¹mʿ w-ḥtfẓ (ʾlw)hb ḏ-F[ʾmn. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 14, w. 60 |
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/VIII | 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: 25, facsimile | Mordtmann, Johannes H. 1897. Beiträge zur minäischen Epigrafik. (Ergänzungshefte zur Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, 12. Semitistische Studien). Weimar: E. Felber. |
Jaussen and Savignac 1914: 298-299, pls LXXVI, CII/29 (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. |