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  • Editor(s)
    Irene Rossi
    CSAI Team
  • First published
    2013-10-01
  • Last revised
    2024-12-04
  • DOI
    10.82194/dasi-epi-3152
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Maʿīn 90 RES 2835; M 89 (left part)


Bron 1998 a: pl. 35

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Measure of letters7.5
Chronology
PeriodB
Textual typologyDedicatory text

TEXT

marker


   1  [... ...]ṭ[... ...]↯ (Ḏbyn)( bn )(ʾly)fʿ (Yṯ)ʿ mlk Mʿ(n) ↯ʾb ʾb(krb) w-Ṣbḥh—
   2  [m] s³lʾ ʿ↯ṯtr↯ ḏ-Qbḍ ʾl Rṣf kl mbny ḫhny↯hn b-ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm
   3  [w-b kl ʾ]↯(lʾl)↯(t) Mʿ[n]↯(m) w-Y(ṯl)[ ... ...]

Apparatus
1-2The restoration Ṣbḥh[mw] proposed in the previous editions of this text does not take into consideration the form of this name attested in Minaic, which is always Ṣbḥhm (cf. as-Sawdāʾ 22, Maʿīn 104, Maʿīn 109, Robin-Maʿīn 5). Ṣbḥhmw is never attested in Minaic.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  [... ...] Ḏbyn, son of ʾlyfʿ Yṯʿ, king of Maʿīn, father of ʾbkrb and Ṣbḥh-
   2  mw, dedicated to ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍ, god of Rṣf, all the construction of the two porticos, by ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm
   3  and by all the gods of Maʿīn and Yathill [... ...]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 29, w. 290
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteMaʿīn
Ancient siteQrnw
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī Madhab
CountryYemen
FoundIn situ
Archaeological contextReligious context: Temple of ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bron 1998 a: 99-100, pl. 35Bron, 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]