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Robin-Maʿīn 3
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Lists of foreign wives |
GENERAL NOTES
| Ll. 6-8 are dated to period A based on the palaeography and the short formula (lacking the verb s¹krb), while the rest is dated to period B. Robin-Maʿīn 2 and 3 are written on two adjacent sides of the same pillar. |
TEXT
1 [...] bn Wh(bn)( ḏ)-Ẓlw[mn ḏ-ʾ]—
2 hl Gbʾn s¹krb w-ḫs³[r ʾb]—
3 ʿdn bn Ġzt Ṣb[.. bn]
4 Ḥyw ḏ-Ḥzrn ḏ-ʾhl[ ... ... s¹]—
5 krb w-ḫs³r Ṯwr bn[ ... ...]
6 Lḥyʿṯt b(n)[ ... ...]—
7 [b] ḏ-ʾlym ḏ-ʾhl [... ...]
8 [... ...]
| 3-4 | Ḥyw, which is the first name in the record according to Robin (2021: 25), is a patronymic here: the name of the husband, missing one or two letters, appears on the final line of the previous record. Names such as Ṣbḥ, Ṣbḥm, Ṣbyḥ, etc., are well attested in Minaean (Rossi 2023: 182, fn. 86) |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Architectural structure » Pillar |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maʿīn |
| Ancient site | Qrnw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | In situ |
| Notes | Stone pillar near an intra-muros building. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Robin 2021: 224-225, fig. 6 | Robin, Christian J. 2021. Nouveaux fragments des listes de « femmes étrangères » naturalisées dans le royaume sudarabique de Maʿīn. Pages 219-226 in Christian Darles, Lamya Khalidi and Mounir Arbach (eds). Contacts between South Arabia and the Horn of Africa, from the Bronze Age to Islam. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Midi. |
| Rossi 2022: 354 | Rossi, Irene 2022. The city-states of the Jawf at the dawn of Ancient South Arabian history (8th-6th centuries BCE). II. Corpus of the inscriptions. (Arabia Antica, 17/2). Roma: «L'Erma» di Bretschneider. |
| Rossi 2023: 182, fn. 86 | Rossi, Irene 2023. Nouvelles listes de femmes étrangères des Minéens et première mention d’Édom en Arabie du Sud. Pages 151-182 in Iwona Gajda and Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet (eds). Arabie – Arabies. Volume offert à Christian Julien Robin par ses collègues, ses élèves et ses amis. Avec la collaboration de Denise Aigle. Paris: Geuthner. |