CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


M 350 B

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Marginal Minaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Measure of letters3
Chronology
PeriodB

GENERAL NOTES

Jaussen and Savignac in Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ only saw M 350 A, which was reemployed in a well's wall; a year later the stone was sent to Brussels and they were told of the existence of an inscription on the verso (M 350 B).

TEXT


   1  [... ...]s¹q(ny)[... ...]
   2  [... ...](Ḥ)my ḏ-[... ...]
   3  [... ...]nytn [... ...]
   4  k(b)r-s¹ ḏ-[... ...]
   5  [... ...]ld ḏ-[... ...]
   6  [... ...]krb yṯ[... ...]
   7  [... ...] Yʾws¹ʾl[ ... ...]

Apparatus
2ḏ-M[... ...] (Jaussen and Savignac, RES and Garbini); ḏ-D[... ...] (Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927: 200).
4k-ḥrs¹ (RES and Garbini).

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositBruxelles, Musée du Cinquantenaire, O.504
Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
Measuresh. 32, w. 57
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteMadāʾin Ṣāliḥ
Ancient siteḤgrʾ
Geographical areaNorthwest Arabia
CountrySaudi Arabia
FoundReemployed
NotesWhen Jaussen and Savignac copied the epigraph, it was reemployed in a well's wall; a year later it was sent to Brussels.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Jaussen and Savignac 1914: 309, pl. CIII/34 (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.
Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927: 200Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Première série. Le Muséon, 40: 161-200.