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Maʿīn 113
Arbach and Rossi 2012: pl. LI/5
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 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| We date the text, on the palaeographical basis, to the first half of the VII century BC. It cannot be excluded that the king ʾbydʿ mentioned in this text is ʾbydʿ Yfs² son of Nbṭʾl of the inscriptions of the temple of Nkrḥ in Qarnaw (Maʿīn 102-111). |
TEXT
1 Yʿḏrʾl bn ʿmḍmd rs²w S¹wr
2 ʾb Wddʾl w-Rʾb w-Yfdʾl s³lʾ
3 ʾlʾlt S¹wr Rʾb b-ywm ʾbydʿ
| 1, 3 | Note that S¹wr seems a name of god in l.1 and a name of group in l.3 (see the cultural note). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Yʿḏrʾl son of ʿmḍmd, priest of S¹wr, 2 father of Wddʾl, Rʾb and Yfdʾl, dedicated 3 Rʾb to the gods of S¹wr. At the time of ʾbydʿ. |
| Arbach and Rossi 2012: 336 | Arbach, Mounir and Rossi, Irene 2012. From city-state to kingdom: history and chronology of Maʿīn between the VIII and the VI centuries BC. Orientalia, 81/4: 318-339, pls XLIX-LVI. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum |
| Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with framework |
| Top | Concave |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maʿīn |
| Ancient site | Qrnw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Notes | We infer that this text comes from Maʿīn by the name of the king mentioned: ʾbydʿ is a typical Minaic royal name. |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
The text is dedicated by a priest of S¹wr. Note that in l.3 S¹wr seems to be a name of family or place ("ʾlʾlt S¹wr"). Following the reasoning proposed for Gbʾn in Maʿīn 113, we may hypothesize that the family S¹wr worshipped an eponymous founder.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach and Rossi 2012: 336-337, pl. LI/5 | Arbach, Mounir and Rossi, Irene 2012. From city-state to kingdom: history and chronology of Maʿīn between the VIII and the VI centuries BC. Orientalia, 81/4: 318-339, pls XLIX-LVI. |
| Rossi 2022: 315-316, 486, fig. 58 | Rossi, Irene 2022. The city-states of the Jawf at the dawn of Ancient South Arabian history (8th-6th centuries BCE). II. Corpus of the inscriptions. (Arabia Antica, 17/2). Roma: «L'Erma» di Bretschneider. |