CSAI
Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


M 350 A

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Marginal Minaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Measure of letters3
Chronology
PeriodB
Textual typologyLegal text - fragmentary

TEXT

marker


   1  [... ...]
   2  [... ... Nḥ](s¹)ṭb b-ʾḥly Whbn w-b ʾḥl(y) [... ...]
   3  [... ...]ḏ-(y)mttʿ(((Y)mttʿ)) b-s¹ Wd w-Nḥs¹ṭb w-s¹t[... ...]
   4  [... ...]l ḥghty Mʿn w-s¹twṯq Wd w-Nḥ[s¹ṭb ... ...]
   5  [... ...](ḏ)-kl qny Whbn ḏ-Qbt w-kl ḏ-yqn[y ... ...]
   6  [... ...]w-kl ʾrḍm w-Whbn ms¹mtʿm w-[... ...]
   7  [... ... Nḥ]s¹ṭb w-qny-s¹w k-Wd rytm w-[... ...]

Apparatus
1the editors read [..](y)[... ...]b(k)[..]s¹[... ...].
3on the interpretation of ḏ-ymttʿ see M 333.

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositBruxelles, Musée du Cinquantenaire, O.504
Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 32, w. 57
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteMadāʾin Ṣāliḥ
Ancient siteḤgrʾ
Geographical areaNorthwest Arabia
CountrySaudi Arabia
FoundReemployed
NotesWhen Jaussen and Savignac copied the epigraph, it was reemployed in a well's wall; a year later it was sent to Brussels.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927: 200Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Première série. Le Muséon, 40: 161-200.
Jaussen and Savignac 1909: 250-3, fig. 1 (facsimile), pl. X/1Jaussen, Antonin J. and Savignac, M. Raphael 1909. Mission archéologique en Arabie. (Mars-mai 1907). De Jérusalem au Hedjaz Médâin-Saleḥ. (Publications de la Société française des fouilles archéologiques, [1]). Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner.