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Maʿīn 96 M 395
Bron 1998 a: 114, pl. 72
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 [... ...]ym bn Ys¹mʿʾl ḏ-
2 [... ...]b ḏ-ʾhl Ḥṭṭ s¹krb
3 [w-ḫs³r] ʾnṯt-s¹ Ṣhbn bnt
4 [... ... ]bnt Tdd ḥrt bn Ḏ—
5 [... ...]
6 [...]q bn S¹ʿdʾl
7 ḏ-Mlg ḏ-ʾhl Gḥḏ
8 s¹krb w-ḫs³r Ḫld
9 bn Wgʾ |
10 Zyd bn Ḥwhm ḏ-S²f—
11 tn ḏ-ʾhl Bʿdʾl s¹k—
12 rb w-ḫs³r Ynʿmʾl
13 bn (Y)myṯ |
14 Rṯdʾl bn ʿkbr
15 [ḏ-]Nmr ḏ-ʾhl Gbʾn
16 [s¹]krb w-ḫs³r Ḍbʿ
17 [... ...]
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...]ym son of Ys¹mʿʾl ḏ- 2 [... ...]b of the clan Ḥṭṭ has married 3 [and paid the price for] his wife Ṣhbn, daughter of 4 [... ... ] daughter of Tdd, free woman from ḏ-[... ...] 5 [... ...] 6 [...]q son of S¹ʿdʾl 7 ḏ-Mlg of the clan Gḥḏ 8 has married and paid the price for Ḫld 9 from Wgʾ. 10 Zyd son of Ḥwhm ḏ-S²ftn 11 of the clan Bʿdʾl has married 12 and paid the price for Ynʿmʾl 13 from Ymyṯ. 14 Rṯdʾl son of ʿkbr 15 ḏ-Nmr of the clan Gbʾn 16 has married and paid the price for Ḍbʿ 17 [... ...] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Architectural structure » Pillar |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | w. 29 |
| 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: 114, pl. 72 | 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. |