Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Marginal Minaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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4 | the editors read mryʾt (a proper name?); the second letter could also be a t. |
5 | ʿlyʾl in the Minaic corpus is a group name (three times in the lists of the foreign women), but once it seems a proper name (as-Sawdāʾ 76, l.2) like in this case. |
English | |
1 [... ...] a man [... ...] and when [... ...] 2 [... ...] the temple of Wd in Ddn [... ...] 3 [... ...] during the kabirate of Bs¹l ḏ-Bwbn, his first kabirate [... ...] 4 [... ...] among the properties [... ...] 5 [... ...] and ʿlyʾl and his sons and [... ...] 6 [... ...] and his sons and their properties, according to this document [... ...] |
Deposit | Istanbul, Ancient Orient Museum |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 23, w. 45 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | al-ʿUlā |
Ancient site | Ddn |
Geographical area | Ḥijāz |
Country | Saudi Arabia |
Link to site record |
Müller, David H. 1889: pl. I/XIII | 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: 37, facsimile | Mordtmann, Johannes H. 1897. Beiträge zur minäischen Epigrafik. (Ergänzungshefte zur Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, 12. Semitistische Studien). Weimar: E. Felber. |