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Maʿīn 98 M 397


Bron 1998 a: pl. 74

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

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

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.
These inscriptions can be considered dedicatory texts, though the formula testifies also the legal value of the economic transaction consisting in "paying the price for the fiancée".

TEXT

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   1  Frḫ ḏ-Bws¹n ḏ-ʾhl Gb—
   2  ʾn s¹krb w-ḫs³r Ḥṭt b—
   3  n Tmlḥ Tym bn ʾws¹
   4  ḏ-Bws¹n ḏ-ʾhl Gbʾn s¹—
   5  krb w-ḫs³r ʿlḫrs² b—
   6  n Ddn |
   7  Gdn bn ʿbd ḏ-Fʾd ḏ-
   8  ʾhl Gbʾn s¹krb w-ḫ—
   9  s³r ʿ[... ...]

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Frḫ ḏ-Bws¹n of the clan Gbʾn
   2  has married and paid the price for Ḥṭt
   3  from Tmlḥ. Tym son of ʾws¹
   4  ḏ-Bws¹n of the clan Gbʾn has
   5  married and paid the price for ʿlḫrs² from
   6  Ddn.
   7  Gdn son of ʿbd ḏ-Fʾd of
   8  the clan Gbʾn has married and paid
   9  the price for ʿ[... ...]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeArchitectural structure » Pillar
MaterialStone
Dimensionsw. 39
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteMaʿīn
Ancient siteQrnw
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī Madhab
CountryYemen
NotesIt was generally accepted that the inscriptions Maʿīn 93-Maʿīn 98 were in the extra muros temple of ʿṯtr ḏQbḍm. 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).
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CULTURAL NOTES

Maʿīn 93-Maʿīn 98 are long lists of the names of Minaean men and their foreign wives.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bron 1998 a: 115, pl. 74Bron, 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 1996Lemaire, 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.