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Arbach and Rossi 2011: 170, fig. 9
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| 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 | Construction text |
GENERAL NOTES
| Maʿīn 39, a copy by Halévy, is a very similar text. |
TEXT
1 | Nbṭkrb Ṣdq s²wʿ Wdm ḏ-ʿmd bn (H)ʿ(ḏb)wd ʾb ʾbqwm w-ʿm(kr)[b] |
2 | bny w-wfd Ydʿ b-rʿẓ Wdm w-ʿṯtr S²rqn w-Mtb Qbḍm w-Nkrḥm |
3 | b-ʾḫwt Yṯʿʾl w-Ṣbḥm w-b Yṯʿʾmr w-Ḏmrʿly w-Yqhmlk ḏ-Ns²n |
| 1 | On the basis of its position in the text, we consider ʿmd a previously unknown epithet of Wd, but it is not excluded that it is the name of the group of the dedicant, which is not specified after the genealogy. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Nbṭkrb Ṣdq priest of Wd ḏ-ʿmd, son of Hʿḏbwd, father of ʾbqwm amd ʿmkrb, 2 built and cultivated Ydʿ; by the command of Wdm and ʿṯtr S²rqn and Mtb Qbḍm and Nkrḥm, 3 by the alliance of Yṯʿʾl and Ṣbḥm and by Yṯʿʾmr and Ḏmrʿly and Yqhmlk of Nashshān. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maʿīn |
| Ancient site | Qrnw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
The text attests an alliance between the kings of Maʿīn Yṯʿʾl and Ṣbḥm, the kings of Saba Yṯʿʾmr and Ḏmrʿly and the king of Nashshan Yqhmlk. It is probably to be dated at the end of the 8th-beginning of the 7th century BC.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach and Rossi 2011: 158, n. 19, 170-171, fig. 9 | Arbach, Mounir and Rossi, Irene 2011. Réflexions sur l'histoire de la cité-État de Nashshân (fin du IXe - fin du VIIe s. av. J.-C.). Egitto e vicino Oriente, 34: 149-176. |
| Arbach 2014: 81-85 | Arbach, Mounir 2014. The origin and the emergence of the kingdom of Maʿīn in South West Arabia in the light of a new inscription from the eighth century BCE. Pages 78-88 in Mohammed Maraqten. A pioneer of Arabia. Studies in the Archaeology and Epigraphy of the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula in Honor of Moawiyah Ibrahim. Ed. by Zeidan Kafafi. (Rome «La Sapienza» Studies on the Archaeology of Palestine & Transjordan, 10). Rome: La Sapienza. [Arabic] |
| Arbach 2015: 1-5, fig. 1 | Arbach, Mounir 2015. Synchronisme entre Maʿīn, Sabaʾ et Naššān d'après une nouvelle inscription di VIIIe s. av. J.-C.. Pages 1-10 in Iris Gerlach (ed.). South Arabia and its neighbours. Phenomena of intercultural contacts. 14. Rencontres Sabéennes. (Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen, 14). Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag. |