DASI ID: ID: 3288
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"Agostini 2021 a: 154, fig. 2 By kind permission of Missione Archeologica Italiana nella Repubblica dello Yemen (©MAIRY)"
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"Agostini 2011: 49, fig. 1 By kind permission of Missione Archeologica Italiana nella Repubblica dello Yemen (©MAIRY)"
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Translations:
1Yʾws¹ʾl son of Ys¹mʿʾl ḏ-Ġzr S¹ḥfn, servant of Wqhʾl Rym 2king of Maʿīn, kbr of the masonry and of the quarry, dedicated and offered to ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm 3all the offering tables of the hall of the temple Qbḍm and the basin, when Yʾws¹ʾl directed 4for his lord Wqhʾl Rym king of Maʿīn all the excavation (or: transport) and the construction of the temple 5Qbḍm from foundations to the top, and when he built on the walls of the town of Yṯl the 6tower Ṣdqn, that near S²bm, in the property of his brother Rṯdʾl ḏ-Ġzr 7S¹ḥfn, when his lord the king of Maʿīn and the assembly of Maʿīn expressed gratitude to him.
Translation Notes:
2, 4Agostini 2011 translated the words from the root NQL as "transport". CSAI proposed the alternative interpretation of "quarry, excavation". Agostini 2021 translated "cava, scavo". On the root NQL, see Rossi 2022: 128.
3For the meaning of mṣrb, qrqr and mqld and the correspondent structures in the temple Qbḍm, see Agostini 2011: 51.
Chronological
Period: B
Physical
Support: Object → Artefact → Architectural element → Panel
Materials: Stone
Measures: w. 160
Decorations:
Type Level 1: Framework
Figurative Subjects:
Subject Level 1: Geometric motif
Subject Level 2: Dentils
Subject Level 1: Geometric motif
Subject Level 2: Horizontal grooves
Letter Measure: h. 6.5
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Minaic → Central Minaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Dedicatory text
Writing Techniques: Incision
Spatial
Site: Barāqish, Maʾrib, Yemen
Ancient Name: Yṯl
Type of Site: Settlement
Deposit:
settlement: Barāqish
institution: Museum
private Collection: false
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