CC BY 4.0
The above license applies to the data in this record, but not to any images displayed. The images are the property
of third parties and are either used with permission or reproduced from publications (see the credits below each image).
HSM 1936.1.19
By kind permission of Harvard Semitic Museum
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 | 2.5-3 | ||
| Chronology |
| ||
| Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary |
GENERAL NOTES
| F. Bron suggests the possibility that this fragment and the text M 348 may be fragments of the same inscription (reported in Huehnergard). |
TEXT
1 s²kn ftḥ w-s¹ṯb w-s¹ḥr[ ... ...]
2 n w-kl ʾs³wd Mʿnm [... ...]
3 w-kl s²ʿbn Mʿnm hn s²[... ...]
4 bn rydn w-ṣrḥ b-mnk[... ... Wq]—
5 (hʾl) (Ṣdq)( mlk )(Mʿn)[ ... ...]
| 2 | At the end of the line, Huehnergard reads (m)[... ...] |
| 4 | A possible integration is b-mnk[ṯn (see as-Sawdāʾ 32/2). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Thus has (PN) decreed, ordained, and enacted [... ...] 2 and all the councillors of Maʿīn [... ...] 3 and the entire tribe of Maʿīn that [... ...] 4 from the lower part and the vestibule in (?) [... ...] Wqhʾl 5 Ṣdq king of Maʿīn [... ...] |
| Following Huehnergard. | |
| 4 | If the supposed integration at the end of the line was correct, we would have a phrase like: "for the violation". |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Cambridge MA, Harvard Semitic Museum, 1936.1.19 |
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 27.1, w. 17.5, th. 9.1 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Huehnergard 2000: 201-203 (photo) | Huehnergard, John 2000. Old south Arabian inscriptions in the Harvard Semitic Museum. Pages 196-206 in Lawrence E. Stager, Joseph A. Greene and Michael D. Coogan (eds). The archaeology of Jordan and beyond. Essays in honor of James A. Sauer. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. |