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M 352 JSMin 4; RES 3604; Ja 2228


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

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

TEXT

marker


   1  [... ...]f(ʾ)[...]tr (b)[... ...]s¹m ymt [... ...]
   2  [... ...]bʿ k-S²(ḥ)r((s²(h)r)) ḏ-[...](b kbr)h ḏ-ʿqb (kb)[... ...]
   3  [... ...]bʾl ḏ-ʿmmm w-ʾs¹lm bn S¹ʿd ḏ-Ḥqb bn[... ...]
   4  [... ... ]Ddn

Apparatus
Jamme considers the inscription complete and does not restore the lacunae at the beginning and at the end of the lines. He also reads a name on the right low corner of the stone: Yḥmʾl (Jamme 2228b).
1[... ...]ḥfʾ[...]tr b[....](z )s¹m ymt [... ...] (RES and Garbini); [N]ḥfʾl[ s¹]tr ḏ-[ʾs²b t]ḥs¹m ymt s¹ḥrg (Jamme).
2beginning: (t)bʿ (Jamme). The reading on the copies is S²ḥr, but we cannot exclude s²hr "month" followed by the name of the month (cf. M 356, l.10).
ḏ[...]t ḏ-bkrh (Jaussen and Savignac); ḏ[.]t[...]bkrh (RES and Garbini); ḏ-ʿqb kbrh (Jamme).
2-3k-Krbʾl (Jamme).
3end: b-kl (Jaussen and Savignac).

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 22, w. 47
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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

Jaussen and Savignac 1909: 259-260, fig. 106 (facsimile), pl. X/4Jaussen, 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.
Jamme 1974 b: 13-14, pl. IJamme, Albert W.F. 1974. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe VII. Washington. 2025/04/17; https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.38250308. [Privately printed]