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Maʿīn 34 M 31; RES 2776


Bron 1998 a: pl. 26
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Bron 1998 a: pl. 26
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Measure of letters6
Chronology
PeriodB

GENERAL NOTES

Bron 1998 a: 67 mentions the inscription Gl 312 (Wissmann 1976 a: 390), that seems to be a mixing of the two lines of our text with another missed line, testifying the name of a king: l.1: Ḥfnm Yṯʿ bn Ḫlkrb mlk Mʿ-; l.2: n bny l-ys¹bḥr bʿ- l.3: gwhty w-zlt ḏn nkrh.

TEXT

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   1  (l)-ys¹bḥr Nkrḥ bʿ[l ... ... ṣ]—
   2  lwthy w-zlt ḏn [... ...]

Apparatus
1-2Bron translates: "Que Nakraḥ, seigneur [de ...] choisisse ... les deux façades et l'escalier (?) de ce [... ...].
Jamme 1971: 21 translates line 1: "qu'il craigne Nkrḥ". Jamme is right in believing that there is no obligation to consider the god as the subject of the verb. The normal meaning of ys¹bḥr is "to dig a well".

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositLondon, The British Museum, BM 125109=1887,0629.4
Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 20, w. 44.3, th. 9.8
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteMaʿīn
Ancient siteQrnw
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī Madhab
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Pirenne 1956: pl. XXXII/cPirenne, Jacqueline 1956. Paléographie des inscriptions sud-arabes. Contribution à la chronologie et à l'histoire de l'Arabie du sud antique. (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België. Klasse der letteren, 26). Brussels: Paleis der Academiën.
Bron 1998 a: 66-67, pl. 26Bron, François 1998. Maʿīn. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 3. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente]
Jamme 1971 bJamme, Albert W.F. 1971. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe II. Washington. 2025/04/17; https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.38250313. [Privately printed]
Wissmann 1976 aWissmann, Hermann von 1976. Die Geschichte des Sabäerreichs und der Feldzug des Aelius Gallus. Pages 308–544 in Hildegard Temporini (ed.). Politische Geschichte. (Provinzen und Randvölker: Mesopotamien, Armenien, Iran, Südarabien, Rom und der Ferne Osten). Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase (eds), Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt. Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung. II. 9/1. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter / New York: Walter de Gruyter.