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  • Editor(s)
    Irene Rossi
    CSAI Team
  • First published
    2013-10-01
  • Last revised
    2013-12-19
  • DOI
    10.82194/dasi-epi-3229
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al-Saʿīd 2002/2009


al-Saʿīd 2009: fig. 44
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al-Saʿīd 2009: fig. 44
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al-Saʿīd 2002 b: 57, fig. 1

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 typologyLists of foreign wives

GENERAL NOTES

The editor published this text as four separate inscriptions (Inscriptions ns. 1-4).

TEXT

marker


      [... ...]
   1  [... ...] (ḏ)-(ʾhl )(ʾṣ)[rm s¹k]—
   2  [rb] w-ḫs³r S¹l(m)[t bn]
   3  [Ġz]t S¹lm bn ʾr[s²]
   4  [ḏ-R]dʿ ḏ-ʾhl Gbʾ(n)
   5  s¹krb w-ḫs³r Mnk(ṣ)
   6  bn Ddn Wfy b—
   7  [n] Mʾdn ḏ-Bwbn ḏ-
   8  (ʾ)hl Ḍrḥ s¹krb w-
   9  ḫs³r Nwlt bn Nt—
  10  (hy) Yʾws¹ʾl bn
  11  [... ...] (ḏ)-
  12  [ʾhl ... ...]

Apparatus
1al-Saʿīd reads ...ḏbw. [ḏʾhl ...s¹]. On the new reading, see Rossi 2023: 177, fn 79.
5al-Saʿīd reads Mnkṣ, but on the photo the reading is uncertain between a letter ṣ and a letter ḫ. Since it seems that there is space for a lacuna of two letters at the beginning of l.7, the name could be uncomplete.
11-12The text continued below l. 11, but the pillar is broken.

TRANSLATIONS

English

      [... ...]
   1  [... ...] of the clan ʾṣrm has married
   2  and paid the price for S¹lmt from
   3  Ġzt. S¹lm son of ʾrs²
   4  ḏ-Rdʿ of the clan Gbʾn
   5  has married and paid the price for Mnk[.]
   6  from Ddn. Wfy son
   7  of Mʿdn ḏ-Bwbn
   8  of the clan Ḍrḥ has married and
   9  paid the price for Nwlt from
  10  Nthy. Yʾws¹ʾl son of
  11  [... ...] of
  12  [the clan ... ...]

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositRiyāḍ, King Saud University Museum
Support typeArchitectural structure » Pillar
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteMaʿīn
Ancient siteQrnw
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī Madhab
CountryYemen
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CULTURAL NOTES

This text adds new names to the lists of the foreign wives of the Minaean traders (Maʿīn 93-Maʿīn 98).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

al-Saʿīd 2002 b: 57-60, fig. 1al-Saʿīd, Saʿīd F. 2002. Zawǧāt al-maʿīniyyīn al-aǧnabiyyāt fī ḍawʾ nuṣūṣ ǧadīdah. Adūmātū, 5: 53-72.
al-Saʿīd 2009: 100-105, fig. 44al-Saʿīd, Saʿīd F. 2009. Les épouses étrangères des Minéens. Pages 93-114 in Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet (ed.). Femmes, cultures et sociétés dans les civilisations méditerranéennes et proche-orientales de l'antiquité. (Topoi Orient-Occident. Supplément, 10). Lyon: Maison de l'orient méditerranéen-Jean Pouilloux.
Rossi 2023: 177, fn. 79Rossi, Irene 2023. Nouvelles listes de femmes étrangères des Minéens et première mention d’Édom en Arabie du Sud. Pages 151-182 in Iwona Gajda and Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet (eds). Arabie – Arabies. Volume offert à Christian Julien Robin par ses collègues, ses élèves et ses amis. Avec la collaboration de Denise Aigle. Paris: Geuthner.