al-Jawf 04.6
Arbach and Audouin 2004: 56, fig. 32; Arbach and Schiettecatte 2006: pl. 3/7
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 7 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text |
GENERAL NOTES
| Considering the architectural context, we have defined this a construction text. However, we cannot exclude that bny Ys¹mʿqhl is the indication of the family name. See al-Ḥarāshif 2 for comparison. |
TEXT
1 Yhzḥ Rdʿn bn↯ S¹m(h)—
2 s¹mʿ bny Ys¹mʿqhl
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Yhzḥ Rdʿn son of S¹mh- 2 s¹mʿ built Ys¹mʿqhl. |
| 2 | the name of the sanctuary sounds unusual, rather resembling a proper name. We could alternatively hypothesize that Ys¹mʿqhl is the name of the family's ancestor, translating: "Yhzḥ Rdʿn son of S¹mhs¹mʿ, offspring of Ys¹mʿqhl". |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum |
| Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Pillar |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 106, w. 70, th. 50 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Kamna |
| Ancient site | Kmnhw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of Banāt ʿĀd |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Audouin and Arbach 2004: fig. 32 | Audouin, Rémy and Arbach, Mounir 2004. La découverte du temple d'Aranyadaʾ à Nashshān. Rapport préliminaire d'une opération de sauvetage franco-yéménite. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres: 1278-1304. |
| Arbach and Schiettecatte 2006: 19-20, pl. 3/7 | Arbach, Mounir and Schiettecatte, Jérémie 2006. Catalogue des pièces archéologiques et épigraphiques du Jawf au Musée National de Ṣanʿâʾ. Ṣanʿâʾ National Museum. Ṣanʿāʾ: Centre français d'archéologie et de sciences sociales de Ṣanʿâʾ. [Text in French and Arabic] |
| Arbach 2022: 77, fig. 22b | Arbach, Mounir 2022. The city-states of the Jawf at the dawn of Ancient South Arabian history (8th-6th centuries BCE). I. From cities to kingdoms. (Arabia Antica, 17/1). Roma: «L'Erma» di Bretschneider. |
| Rossi 2022: 184 | 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. |