Kamna 14 A RES 2846 A; M 97 B
Kamna 14 A
Robin 1992 a: pl. 54/b
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Robin 1992 a: pl. 54/b
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 5.2 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary (conjectural) |
GENERAL NOTES
| The texts Kamna 14 A, B and C were probably inscribed on different faces of one offering table. Only the photograph of Kamna 14 A (the text on the anterior face) is available. Above the edge of the fragment A, runs the text Kamna 14 A bis: [... ...]fq bḥ[... ...]. |
TEXT
1 mṯʿy[ ʿ]↯(ṯtr) ḏ-(R)↯[ḥbh ... ...]
2 (w)-(rḍ)↯[w-s¹ ]↯f(nw)t (w)-↯[... ...]
3 Mdhww ↯w-(kbr ns³r) ʿly↯[ ... ... b-r]—
4 ʿẓ Nbʿl↯ w-ʿṯtr Ḥgr (b)-↯[... ...]
| 4 | At the end: (b-y)[wm ... ...] (Robin). |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Istanbul, Ancient Orient Museum, 7458-7460 |
| Support type | Artefact » Offering table » With ibex frieze |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | Kamna 14 A: h. 23, w. 47; Kamna 14 B: h. 15, w. about 36; Kamna 14 C: h. 19, w. 17, th. 15 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Kamna |
| Ancient site | Kmnhw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Pirenne 1956: pl. III/b | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1956. Paléographie des inscriptions sud-arabes. Contribution à la chronologie et à l'histoire de l'Arabie du sud antique. (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België. Klasse der letteren, 26). Brussels: Paleis der Academiën. |
| Robin 1992 a: 185-187, pl. 54/b | Robin, Christian J. 1992. Inabbaʾ, Haram, al-Kāfir, Kamna et al-Ḥarāshif. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 1. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente] |
| Rossi 2022: 245-247 | 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. |