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 | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
1 | s¹my ḏ qny ʾws¹ ḏ-ʿmm b-k(lw)[... ...]dh(b) w-s¹tʾ[... ...] (Jaussen and Savignac and RES). Garbini correctly transcribes ḏh(b). Uncertain reading of qny (qnh according to Jaussen and Savignac's facsimile). |
2 | the editors read [kt]rb k-ydy-s¹mn, but the second y is more probably a h. Beeston 1981 b: 25, doubts about the restoration of [kt]rb: "a noun form is just as possible". |
3 | at the beginning of the line Jaussen and Savignac integrate (yn)n, the following editors s¹]mn; w-ʾqnyt-s¹mn and at the end ḏn ḏ-ʾqn (Jaussen and Savignac). |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 13, w. 57 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | al-ʿUlā |
Ancient site | Ddn |
Geographical area | Ḥijāz |
Country | Saudi Arabia |
Link to site record |
Jaussen and Savignac 1914: 264-266, pls 74, 98/14 (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 1981 b | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1981. Two epigraphic South Arabian roots: HYʿ and KRB. Pages 21-34 in Roswitha G. Stiegner (ed.). al-Hudhud. Festschrift Maria Höfner zum 80. Geburtstag. Graz: Karl-Franzens-Universität. |