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M 334 RES 3358; Ja 2227


Renan 1891: no. 30; Jamme 1974 b: pl. 1

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

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

GENERAL NOTES

RES curiously did not find the photograph of this inscription in Doughty's plates (Renan 1891), although the figure's number 30, mentioned by Müller, was correct.

TEXT

marker


   1  [... ...]kl s²ʾm w-fd↯[yt ... ...]
   2  [... ...] b-Mʿn↯[ ... ...]
   3  [... ...]mḏ kl s²ʾm w-fdyt w-s¹↯[... ...]
   4  [... ...](ʿ)[ʾ]lt ḏ-(nḍs¹)[... ...]
   5  [... ...]n w-k-ʾws¹ ʿnn ʿlyt ḏt ṣ↯[ḥftn ... ...]
   6  [... ... ]bn-kl ḏ-yġrb-s¹m[ ..]w↯[... ...]

Apparatus
This text combines Jamme 1974's facsimile with Müller, David H. 1889's transcription (followed by RES and Garbini).
4Jamme read ...]ʾlt; the reading of ḏ-nḍs¹ (or, ḏ-nḍ-s¹?) is very uncertain.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteMadāʾin Ṣāliḥ
Ancient siteḤgrʾ
Geographical areaNorthwest Arabia
CountrySaudi Arabia
FoundReemployed. In modern times
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Renan 1891: no. 30Renan, Ernest (ed.) 1891. Documents épigraphiques recueillis dans le Nord de l'Arabie par M. Charles Doughty. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale.
Jamme 1974 b: 12-13, pl. 1Jamme, Albert W.F. 1974. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe VII. Washington. 2025/04/17; https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.38250308. [Privately printed]
Müller, David H. 1889Müller, David H. 1889. Epigraphische Denkmäler aus Arabien. (Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna. Philosophisch-historische Klasse. Denkschriften, 37/2). Vienna: In Commission bei F. Tempsky.