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Maʿīn 13 RES 2789; M 43
Bron 1998 a: pl. XVIII/a
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 | ||
| Measure of letters | 5.7 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text |
TEXT
1 | Yḏkrʾl bn ʾlʿz ḏ-(Ḥ)dbr ḏ-(ʾ)hl Gbʾn ʾb ʾlʿz w-Ḏʾbn w-ʿmḏḫr w-ʿmṣd—
2 q ʿs¹y w-bny ʿḍ w-tqr byt-s¹ Yfs² w-ṣrḥt-s¹ w-mṣbḥ-s¹ w-mnḥl-s¹ w-kl mhn qny-byt—
3 n bn rmdn ʿd ṣnqn b-ʾs³nnh-s¹ gwlm w-ʿly-s¹m k-s¹ Ḫbḍn ywm ʿrb mṯʿy Wd w-ḏ—
4 bḥ ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍ (ʾ)ḏb(ḥ) /8/ b-ʾlʾlt Mʿn w-Yṯl b-ywm ʾlyfʿ Yṯʿ w-ʾbydʿ-w-r—
5 ṯd s¹ṭr-s¹m ʾlʾlt Mʿn w-ġyl Wdm w-mlk Mʿn w-Mʿnm bn ḏ-yms³r-s¹ w-s¹nkr-s¹
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Yḏkrʾl son of ʾlʿz ḏ-Ḥdbr of the clan Gbʾn, father of ʾlʿz, Ḏʾbn, ʿmḏḫr and ʿmṣdq, 2 made and built, of wood and cut stone, his house Yfs², his forepart, his mṣbḥ, his mnḥl, and all that the house possessed 3 from the floor to the ṣnq, in his boundaries, with the whole of the property rights, and Ḫbdn erected them for him (?), when he offered offers to Wdm and 4 sacrificed to ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍ 8 victims; by the gods of Maʿīn and of Yathill, at the time of ʾlyfʿ Yṯʿ and of ʾbydʿ, and they committed 5 their inscriptions to the gods of Maʿīn and the torrent of Wdm, to the king of Maʿīn and Maʿīn against anyone who would damage them and remove them. |
| Bron 1998 a: 54-55 | Bron, 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] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Architectural structure » Walls |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 32, w. 160 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maʿīn |
| Ancient site | Qrnw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | In situ |
| Archaeological context | Urban context: City walls |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
This divinity, probably a sacred torrent of the god Wd, appears three times in the Minaic corpus.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Bron 1998 a: 53-55, pl. 18/a | Bron, 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] |
| Pirenne 1956: pl. XXIII/a | Pirenne, 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. |