YM 23250
Arbach and Audouin 2007: 20
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Script cursus | Boustrophedon | ||
| Writing technique | Relief | ||
| Chronology |
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GENERAL NOTES
| The slight relief of the text and the boustrophedon cursus are very rare in the Minaic corpus. They are found in some Ancient Sabaic texts from the Jawf. |
TEXT
1 [... ... ʿ]ṯ—
2 tr Ns²qm w-b Yqh(ml)[k ... ...]
3 [... ... ](Lb)ʾn w-b Ns²n
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 23250 |
| Support type | Artefact » Throne |
| Material | Alabaster |
| Measures | h. 56, w. 59, th. 8 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | as-Sawdāʾ |
| Ancient site | Ns²n |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach and Audouin 2007: 20, cat. 10 | Arbach, Mounir and Audouin, Rémy 2007. Collection of Epigraphic and Archaeological Artifacts from al-Jawf Sites. Ṣanʿâʾ National Museum. 2. Ṣanʿāʾ: UNESCO-SFD / Ṣanʿāʾ: National Museum. [Text in English and Arabic] |
| Arbach and Rossi 2011: fig. 10 | Arbach, Mounir and Rossi, Irene 2011. Réflexions sur l'histoire de la cité-État de Nashshân (fin du IXe - fin du VIIe s. av. J.-C.). Egitto e vicino Oriente, 34: 149-176. |
| Rossi 2022: 175-176, 468, fig. 26 | 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. |