MAFRAY aṣ-Ṣanaf 1 RES 3086; M 284
Robin 1993 b: 174, fig. 1
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
TEXT
1 [... ... ]Yfs² s³lʾ Nbʿl w-rṯd Wd w-ʿṯtr |
| At the beginning of the line Robin reads: [... ...](ʾl ʿbd). |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Offering table » Undefined |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 15, w. 140, th. 63 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Ḥizmat aṣ-Ṣanaf |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | al-Jawf |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Urban context: Private house The epigraph was found during the MAFRAY survey on the site. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Robin 1993 b: 173-175, fig. 1 | Robin, Christian J. 1993. Trois inscriptions sudarabiques trouvées aux environs d'al-Bayḍāʾ du Jawf (Yémen). Egitto e Vicino Oriente, 16: 173-181. |
| Rossi 2022: 191, 469, fig. 29 | 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. |