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YM 26106
Arbach and Audouin 2007: 52
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 | ||
| Measure of letters | 5.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Expiation text | ||
| Royal inscription | Yes |
TEXT
1 ʾbkrb Rym bn ʾlmydʿ
2 mlk Mʿn w-Mʿn ntḏr k-W—
3 d b-hn hlk Mʿn w-ʾs²ʿb ʾ—
4 tm-s¹m k-s¹nḥy ġyln w-ʿḏ—
5 bn w-l s¹nḥy w-ys¹nḥy-s¹ W—
6 d blt ʾns¹ w-s¹qy Wdm bḍ—
7 ʿ Mʿn w-l-(ṣt)dq b-ġyln
8 w-ʿḏb w-ntḏr k-Wd bn-wrd
9 b-ġyln w-ʿḏbn (b)-ḍr w-s¹{m}—
10 lm |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 ʾbkrb Rym son of ʾlmydʿ 2 king of Maʿīn and Maʿīn confessed to Wd 3 because he broke the truce of Maʿīn and the tribal 4 coalition s¹nḥy of the valley and the assembly 5 and in order to be forgiven Wd 6 was sent a man and then granted rain to the territory 7 of Maʿīn and fulfilled his promises to the valley 8 and apologised and confessed to Wd for what happened 9 in the valley and to the assembly in time of war and in time of 10 peace. |
| Arbach and Audouin 2007: 52 | Arbach, Mounir and Audouin, Rémy 2007. Collection of Epigraphic and Archaeological Artifacts from al-Jawf Sites. Ṣanʿâʾ National Museum. 2. Ṣanʿāʾ: UNESCO-SFD / Ṣanʿāʾ: National Museum. [Text in English and Arabic] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 26106 |
| Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with framework |
| Top | Concave |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 124, w. 61, th. 13.5 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maʿīn |
| Ancient site | Qrnw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | : The inscription may also come from Yṯl (Baraqish). |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
This inscription is one of the archaic penitential texts in which a king and his people expiate a sin towards the god. In this case, syntactical and lexical difficulties make specific points of the text unclear, but we can affirm that the offence consisted in a wrong use of the water resources, which were under the authority of the god, by the community.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach and Audouin 2007: 52-53, cat. 30 | Arbach, Mounir and Audouin, Rémy 2007. Collection of Epigraphic and Archaeological Artifacts from al-Jawf Sites. Ṣanʿâʾ National Museum. 2. Ṣanʿāʾ: UNESCO-SFD / Ṣanʿāʾ: National Museum. [Text in English and Arabic] |