YM 19608
Arbach and Audouin 2007: 96
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 5 | ||
| Chronology |
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GENERAL NOTES
| The chronology of this text is hypothetical, due to the bad state of preservation of the object. However, it seems palaeographically quite ancient. |
TEXT
1 [... ...]ḥmy [... ...] m[.]ṣw (ʿ)s¹y rb[.]
2 [... ...](w)-(ṣ)dq (ʿ)s¹(y)-s¹ (b)-(ywm )(Ḏ)mrkrb w-b
3 (Ys²hrml)[k]
| 1-2 | ʿs¹y Rbṣdq. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 19608 |
| Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Lintel |
| Material | Wood |
| Measures | h. 34, w. 86, th. 9 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | as-Sawdāʾ |
| Ancient site | Ns²n |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra |
| Country | Yemen |
| Notes | The place of origin is hypothetical and is suggested on the basis of the attestation of the royal name Ys²hrmlk in the text Moussaïeff 22. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach and Audouin 2007: 96, cat. 63 | Arbach, Mounir and Audouin, Rémy 2007. Collection of Epigraphic and Archaeological Artifacts from al-Jawf Sites. Ṣanʿâʾ National Museum. 2. Ṣanʿāʾ: UNESCO-SFD / Ṣanʿāʾ: National Museum. [Text in English and Arabic] |
| Arbach and Rossi 2011: 176, fig. 18 | Arbach, Mounir and Rossi, Irene 2011. Réflexions sur l'histoire de la cité-État de Nashshân (fin du IXe - fin du VIIe s. av. J.-C.). Egitto e vicino Oriente, 34: 149-176. |
| Rossi 2022: 388-389, 496, fig. 77 | 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. |