Hudhud
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𐩠𐩵𐩠𐩵
ID: 4265

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Translations:

1[... ...] Nhn(ʾ) [... ...] Maʿīn and the sons [... ...] 
2[... ...] a Dedanite man [... ...] what follows [... ...] 
3[... ...] a Minaean woman to a Dedanite man and for what follows (for the future, or for the descendants?) [... ...] 
4[... ...] Maʿīn and their sons and their daughters [... ...] 
5[... ...] offer all the children that a Minaean woman will have for all that follows (?) [... ...] 
6[... ...]

Translation Notes:

3-5Grimme 1932: 236-7, translates the lines.

Chronological

Period: B

Physical

Support: Object → Stone piece
Measures: h. 13, w. 42
Letter Measure: 3

Linguistic

Language: Ancient South Arabian → Minaic → Marginal Minaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Legal text (conjectural)
Writing Techniques: Incision
Concordances: JSMin 15, RES 3699

Spatial

Site: al-ʿUlā, al-Madīna, Saudi Arabia
Ancient Name: Ddn

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