Inabbaʾ 3
Robin 1992 a: pl. 3/c
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Undefined Ancient South Arabian language | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 9 | ||
| Chronology |
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GENERAL NOTES
| We cannot say whether the text is Ancient Sabaic or Minaic. |
TEXT
1 [... ...](M)ḏrḥ ʾḫ Ḥfnm ʾ(b)[ ... ...]
2 [... ...]Hwrm w-b Wdm w-b ʿ[ṯtr ... ...]
| 1 | names ending with the element ḏrḥ are unusual in ASA; ḏrḥ is more frequently attested as first element of the first name or as second name (epithet) in royal onomastics. Robin suggest to compare it with ʾlḏr(ḥ) in M 311= Maʿīn 81, where Bron reads instead ʾlḏr(ʾ). We cannot exclude that mḏrḥ is a name of group or a part of it. |
| 2 | Hwrm is probably the name of the representative god of Inabbaʾ (see as-Sawdāʾ TA 1A 5b and as-Sawdāʾ TA 1B 5a). |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 22.5, w. 43 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Inabbaʾ |
| Ancient site | ʾnbʾ |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Robin 1992 a: 6-7, pl. 3/c | 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: 380 | 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. |