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Maʿīn 93 A M 392 A
Bron 1998 a: 103-106, 111-112, pls 36-44
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
| As far as the chronology is concerned, see the contribution by Lemaire 1996 and the summary of the matter in Bron 1998 a: 102-103. |
TEXT
1 [... ...](ṯ)[... ...]
2 [... ... ]ʿs¹lg(t)[ ... ...]
3 [Z](y)d bn Ms¹k[... ...]
4 s¹krb w-ḫs³r [... ...]
5 bn |
6 Ḥwhm bn Mtʿʾl (ḏ)-
7 [ḏ-ʾ]hl s¹krb w-(ḫ)—
8 s³r ʾbhyl bn |
9 Yḥmʾl bn Ḥwhm ḏ- ḏ-ʾhl s¹krb w-
11 ḫs³r Tḫbṯ bn
12 Yḥmʾl bn Ḥwhm ḏ-
13 ḏ-ʾhl s¹krb w-ḫs³—
14 r S¹glt bn |
15 Ḥyw bn Ṣdq ḏ- ḏ-ʾh—
16 l s¹krb w-ḫs³r Ms¹[.]y b—
17 n |
18 Zydʾl bn Ys¹mʿʾl ḏ-[... ...]
19 ḏ-ʾhl s¹krb w-ḫs³r ʾ—
20 bs¹[..] bn
21 Wfd bn ʾws¹ ḏ- ḏ-ʾhl
22 s¹krb w-ḫs³r ʾbrḥm
23 w-ʾm(t)ʾṯ bn
24 ʾws¹m bn S¹mʿ ḏ-
25 ḏ-ʾhl s¹krb w-ḫ—
26 s³r ʾbhl bn
27 Lḥym bn Ḥywn ḏ- ḏ-ʾhl
28 s¹krb w-ḫs³r ʿdnt bn
29 Nbṭʾl bn Lḥyʿṯt ḏ-
30 ḏ-ʾhl s¹krb w-
31 ḫs³r Ḫrs²hnʿmt bn |
32 ʿbd bn Ḥmy ḏ- ḏ-ʾhl
33 s¹krb w-ḫs³r S²mt bn
34 ʾs¹lm bn ʾws¹n ḏ-
35 ḏ-ʾhl s¹krb |
36 w-ḫs³r Znyt bn |
37 Rbḥm bn Ḥyw ḏ- ḏ-ʾh—
38 l s¹krb w-ḫs³r S²ms¹ʿly
39 bn
40 Mtʿʾl bn Rṯd ḏ- ḏ-ʾhl s¹krb w-ḫs³r Tḫbṯ bn
42 ʾbʾmr bn Mtʿ ḏ- ḏ-ʾhl s¹krb w-ḫs³r Ḥmty bn
44 Qms² bn Ḥrm ḏ- ḏ-ʾhl s¹krb w-ḫs³r S¹lmt bn
46 Ḥrm bn Whbʾl ḏ- ḏ-ʾhl |
47 s¹krb w-ḫs³r Ḥnt bn Yḥmʾl bn S¹mʿ ḏ- ḏ-ʾhl
49 s¹krb w-ḫs³r ʾbrḥm bn Yḥmʾl bn ʾws¹ ḏ- ḏ-ʾhl
51 s¹krb w-ḫs³r Ḫtmw bn Hnʾ bn ʿbd ḏ- ḏ-ʾhl s¹krb w-ḫs³r S¹lmbw bn
55 Whbʾl bn Yḥmʾl ḏ-
56 ḏ-ʾhl s¹k—
57 rb w-ḫs³r ʾbs¹my b—
58 n
59 S¹lm bn S²kr ḏ- ḏ-ʾhl
60 s¹krb w-ḫs³r ʾnṯt-s¹
61 Twdd bn
| 15 | Ḏ[ʾb] (Bron 1998 a: 104) |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Ḥwhm son of Mtʿʾl ḏ-S²ʿb 2 of the clan ʾṣrm married and paid the price 3 for ʾbhyl from Ġzt. |
| The formulaic expression "married and paid the price for (the fiancée)" is repeated throughout the inscription. Only the names vary. | |
| 60-61 | "has married and paid the price for his wife Twdd from Ḥaḍramawt". |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Architectural structure » Pillar |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 280, w. 35, th. 30 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maʿīn |
| Ancient site | Qrnw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Notes | It was generally accepted that the inscriptions Maʿīn 93-Maʿīn 98 were in the extra muros temple of ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm. However, Halévy's silence on this topic and the disappearance of the stelae suggested an original location inside the town (Bron 1998 a: 102), which was recently verified when Fontaine and Arbach there found the top of a pillar with an unknown inscription of the same kind (Fontaine and Arbach 2006: 115, fig. 26). |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
Maʿīn 93-Maʿīn 98 are long lists of the names of Minaean men and their foreign wives.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Bron 1998 a: 103-106, 111-112, pls 36-44 | 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] |
| Lemaire 1996 | Lemaire, André 1996. Histoire du Proche-Orient et chronologie sudarabique avant Alexandre. Pages 35-48 in Christian J. Robin and Iwona Gajda (eds). Arabia Antiqua. Early Origins of South Arabian States. Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Conservation and Exploitation of the Archaeological Heritage of the Arabian Peninsula held in the Palazzo Brancaccio, Rome, by IsMEO on 28th-30th May 1991. Rome: Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente. |