Nihm/Barrān 3 MAFRAY-al-Nashshāf 1
Frantsouzoff 2016: Fasc. B, 33, pl. 22
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Legal text |
GENERAL NOTES
| The subject of this inscription is comparable with that one of YMN 19. |
TEXT
1 Mgdḥlk ḏt Ṣhbt hws²ʿt |
2 w-rdʾn bʿl-h Lḥyʿṯt ʿdy
3 ms³wd-hmw Yfʿn ṯty mʾtn b—
4 lṭm l-nhmn w-grbtn
| 1 | ḏt Ṣhbt: lineage name of Mgdḥlk, obtained after her marriage. |
TRANSLATIONS
| French | |
1 Magadḥalak, mariée dans le lignage de Ṣahbat, accorda une faveur 2 et apporta une aide à son mari Laḥayʿathat dans 3 leur salle de conseil Yafʿān avec deux cents 4 pièces de monnaies pour les pierres dressées et les pierres brutes. |
| 2 | For the interpretation of the verb rdʾ, as "to help somebody with a money amount" see Avanzini 1991: 160. |
| Frantsouzoff 2016: 97-100 | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2016. Nihm. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. With contribution by Christian J. Robin. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 8. Paris: De Boccard. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; Collège de France, Laboratoire des Études Sémitiques anciennes; Académie des sciences de Russie Institut des manuscrits orientaux] |
| Avanzini 1991 | Avanzini, Alessandra 1991-1993 [1992]. Remarques sur le "matriarcat" en Arabie du sud. Pages 157-161 in Christian J. Robin (ed.). L'Arabie antique de Karibʾîl à Mahomet. Nouvelles données sur l'histoire des Arabes grâces aux inscriptions. (Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Mediterranée, 61). Aix-en-Provence: Édisud. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 26.5, w. 162 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | al-ʿĀdī |
| Ancient site | Brn |
| Geographical area | Nihm |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
| Modern site | al-Nashshāf |
| Ancient site | unknown |
| Geographical area | Barrān |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Archaeological context | : In 1978 this stone was at al-Nashshāf, district in the plain of Barrān, waiting for reemployment in modern building. |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
This text shows unequivocally the financial autonomy of a woman in South Arabian society.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Frantsouzoff 2016: 97-100, pl. 22 | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2016. Nihm. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. With contribution by Christian J. Robin. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 8. Paris: De Boccard. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; Collège de France, Laboratoire des Études Sémitiques anciennes; Académie des sciences de Russie Institut des manuscrits orientaux] |