Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 19 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary | ||
Royal inscription | Yes |
Only two fragments of the inscription are readable (those on blocks A and B). Of the third block of the lintel, only few letters of the text were readable, because its face was turned upside down; there is no photo of it. Probaby, a fourth fragment of text lacks between blocks A and B, containing the patronymic and - maybe - the title of the king. |
2 | At the beginning Robin restores: w-S¹bʾ[ b-rʿẓ ʿṯ]tr. |
English | |
1 ʾls¹mʿ [... ...] founded a portico (or, founded Rṣf) for Mdhww, when [... ...] 2 and Sabaʾ [... ...] ʿṯtr S²rqn, Wd, ʾlmqh and [... ...] |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Lintel |
Material | Stone |
Measures | Block A: h. 80, w. 150; block B: h. 80 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Ḥizmat an-Naṣāʾib |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | al-Jawf |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of Mdhww |
Notes | The lintel was found at Ḥizmat an-Naṣāʾib, east of Kamna, during the MAFRAY survey. |
Link to site record |
Robin 1992 a: 176-177, pl. 51/a-b | 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] |
Arbach 2022: 83, fig. 26 | 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: 186-187 | 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. |