M 342 Gl 1062; RES 3458
By kind permission of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
- By kind permission of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
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 | Legal text - fragmentary (conjectural) |
TEXT
1 [... ... ʾh](l) ʾmnhtn (h)n y[....]yn((ys¹mʿyn)) s²wʿy Wdm[ ... ...]
2 [... ... ](Y)ṯl ftḥ ftḥ (ml)[k] Mʿnm (w)-[m]s³wd Mʿnm (f)[... ...]
3 [... ... ]w-ḏ-wʿln((Wʿln)) w-ʾhl y[.]ḥrn((Yfḥrn)) b-ʾbytth-s¹m b-mḥr(m)[... ...]
4 [... ... ḫm]s¹t (w)-[ʿs²]ry rb(m) k-(s²)[y](mn) (w)-(k) (n)gs²m b-ḥḏyth [... ...]
5 [... ...](ḏ)lh[...]ʾ bn (m)ḥr[....](l )ḏ-ys¹ḥwr w-ḏ ʾḫr(h)[... ...]
6 [... ... ]f-s¹ṭ[....](r)ʾb(y) w-l yngs²-s¹ b(ʿl) bytn ʾw ḏ-km(r)[... ...]
7 [... ... ]wrḫ ftḥn w-mṯbtn ḏ-Nwr ḏ-kbrh ʿll ḏ-Ẓy[rn ... ...]
| 1 | It is impossible to verify the editors' reading ys¹(mʿ)yn on the basis of the available photographs. |
| 3 | The variant readings and interpretations are those traditionally proposed by the editors. They cannot be verified. y[.]ḥrn might be restored y[s¹]ḥrn; cf. ḏ-ys¹ḥwr in l.4. |
| 4 | ḫm]s¹t (w)-[ʿs²]ry: the reading is problematic. Integration by Hommel after Glaser's copy. Müller reads: k-s²lʾws¹ ngs²m; Hommel k-s²(y)mn w-(k) (ʾ)gs²m. On basis of the KHM's photograph, we restore (n)gs²m. |
| 5 | Previous readings: mḥr(mn kl )ḏ-ys¹ḥwr |
| 6 | Previous readings: f-s¹ṭr [.]rʾby |
| 7 | At the end of the line Müller suggests ḏ-Ẓy[rn]. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...] the group of ʾmnhtn when the two priests of Wdm notified [... ...] 2 [... ...] Yṯl, the judicial order that decreed the king of Maʿīn and the Assembly of Maʿīn, and [... ...] 3 [... ...] and of Wʿln and the people of Yfḥrn, in their houses, in the sanctuary of [... ...] 4 [... ...] twenty-five rbm to the Patron and the chiefs according to [... ...] 5 [... ...] from the temple all that he will decree and has prolonged (?) [... ...] 6 [... ...] and they wrote [and] they decreed (?), and may the owner of the house (temple?) levy a tax upon him or [... ...] 7 [... ...] month of the judicial order and of the decree: ḏ-Nwr, during the kabirate of ʿll ḏ-Ẓy[... ...] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Sem 10 |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 26, w. 49 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Müller, David H. 1899: pl. V | Müller, David H. (ed.) 1899. Südarabische Altertümer im Kunsthistorischen Hofmuseum. Vienna: Alfred Hölder. [Im Auftrage und mit Unterstützung des Oberstlämmerer-Amtes seiner K. und K. Apost. Majestät] |
| Hommel 1899: 13-14 | Hommel, Fritz 1899. Die Südarabischen Altertümer (Eduard Glaser Sammlung) des Wiener Hofmuseums, und ihr Herausgeber Professor David Heinrich Müller. München: Verlag von Hermann Lukaschik. |
| RES VI: 165-167 | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1933. Répertoire d'épigraphie sémitique. Paris: Académie des inscriptions and belles-lettres - Imprimerie Nationale. [RES VI/1, 1933 (RES 3053-3655); RES VI/2, 1935 (RES 3656-3946)] |
| Garbini 1974 c: 99 | Garbini, Giovanni 1974. Iscrizioni sudarabiche. i. Iscrizioni minee. (Istituto universitario orientale di Napoli. Ricerche, 10). Naples: Istituto universitario orientale. |