Kamna 36
Breton and Arbach 2020: 102, fig. 18
By kind permission of M. Arbach
By kind permission of M. Arbach
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 |
TEXT
1 Ṣbḥn bn Ḥyw w-Ẓwrwqh ʾb
2 ʾws¹ s³lʾ ʾl Yfʿn b-ʾls¹mʿ
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Ṣbḥn son of Ḥyw and Ẓwrwqh father of 2 ʾws¹ dedicated to ʾl Yfʿn, by ʾls¹mʿ. |
| Rossi 2022: 211-212 | 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. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 16711 |
| Support type | Artefact » Altar |
| Shape | Squared |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 12, w. 54, th. 36.5 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Kamna |
| Ancient site | Kmnhw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context |
| Notes | Possibly from a temple or shrine of ʾl Yfʿn (Rossi 2022: 211). |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Breton and Arbach 2020: 87-89, 102, fig. 18 | Breton, Jean-François and Arbach, Mounir 2020. Kamna, une cité archaïque du Jawf (Yémen). Pages 71-102 in I. V. Zaitsev (ed.). Arabian Antiquities. Studies Dedicated to A. Sedov on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. Moscow: Oriental Literature Publisher. |
| Rossi 2022: 211-212, 473, fig. 35 | 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. |