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Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

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Collection yéménite privée 2020-2


Schiettecatte and Arbach 2020: fig. 4
By kind permission of J. Schiettecatte and M. Arbach

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodB
Textual typologyLegal text

TEXT

marker


   1  [... ...] Wqhʾl Ṣdq bn ʾlyfʿ mlk Mʿnm w-ms³w(d)
   2  [... ...]y mlkn qys¹ ʾḥly ḏ-ys²ʾm qny bn ḏ-ʾḫrh ʾ(l)
   3  [... ...] ʾḥly ḏ-ys²ʾm qny bn ḏ-ʾḫrh ʾl w-s²ym [..]
   4  [... ...]n w-ḏ-yʾmr b-[...]h w-ṭwdh ʿrb byt Wd b-Dd[n]
   5  [... ...]kn b-ḥḏyth-s¹ w-s¹ʾby-s¹m w-ʾqny-s¹m b-mʾs³rn
   6  [... ...]mʾt w-l ys¹tʾbyn-s¹m b-mʾs³rn w-ḥ(.)n(n) w-ḥ(m)—
   7  [... ...]br-s¹ s¹mʿm ʿmydʿ bn Lḥyʿṯt ḏ-Yfʿn w-H(w)—
   8  [... ... ... ... w-..]krb Ṣdq ḏ-Ḥdṯ w-Nbṭkrb Nbṭ ḏ-Ydʿ

Apparatus
8The editors restore [ʾb]krb Ṣdq, which is otherwise known as a Minaean king's name.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance. Conjectural
Modern siteMaʿīn
Ancient siteQrnw
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī Madhab
CountryYemen
NotesThe object may come from Qarnā or Yathill.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Schiettecatte and Arbach 2020: 276-278, fig. 4Schiettecatte, Jérémie and Arbach, Mounir 2020. La chronologie du royaume de Maʿīn (VIIIe-Ier s. av. J.-C.). Pages 233-284 in I. V. Zaitsev (ed.). Arabian Antiquities. Studies Dedicated to A. Sedov on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. Moscow: Oriental Literature Publisher.