CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Textual typologyDedicatory text - fragmentary

TEXT


   1  [... ... w-H]nʾ Yʾws¹ʾl bny Mrd s¹qny ḏt Ns²q wldm w-ʾḏ[bḥm ... ...]

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  [... ...] and Hnʾ Yʾws¹ʾl sons of Mrd dedicated to ḏt Ns²q the sons and sacrificial victims [... ...]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance. Conjectural
Modern siteKharibat Hamdān
Ancient siteHrm
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī Madhab
CountryYemen
NotesThis text was recorded as coming from Al-Firʿ (Haram). Robin did not include it among Haram's inscriptions in the first volume of the Inventaire des Inscriptions Sudarabiques.
The goddess ḏt Ns²q is never attested in the Haramite corpus; however, this might be one of the few texts from Haram of period B, when the cult of the goddess was spread in the Minaic Jawf (see also M 18).
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