Ṣanʿāʾ MM 3630
By kind permission of GOAM
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 Bs¹l b(n) Ḫtn qyn Nbṭʿly w-Kmnhw s³lʾ Nbʿl S²bʿn((S²bʿn))→ (y)wm ḏbḥ Mdhww b-rʿẓ → Nbʿl w-ʿṯtr Ḥgr b-ywm Nbṭʿly w-Wqhʾb |
| 1 | It is unclear whether the proper names which constitute the object of the dedication refer to an object (the very altar?) or to a person. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Bs¹l son of Ḫtn, qyn of Nbṭʿly and of Kamna, dedicated to Nbʿl S²bʿn, when he offered a sacrifice to Mdhww, by the command of Nbʿl and of ʿṯtr Ḥgr, at the time of Nbṭʿly and of Wqhʾb. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, Military Museum, MM 3630 |
| Support type | Artefact » Altar |
| Shape | Squared |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 40, w. 80, th. 50 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Kamna |
| Ancient site | Kmnhw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Catalogue 2000: 339-340, cat. 214 | 2000. Yemen. Nel paese della Regina di Saba. Catalogo della Mostra, Palazzo Ruspoli, Fondazione Memmo, Roma 6 Aprile - 30 Giugno 2000. Milan: Skira. |
| Simpson 2002: 162, cat. 56 | Simpson, St John (ed.) 2002. Queen of Sheba. Treasures from the ancient Yemen. London: British Museum Press. [Catalogue of an exhibition held at the British Museum, London] |
| Robin 2002: 194-197, figs 3-7 | Robin, Christian J. 2002. Vers une meilleure connaissance de Kaminahū (Jawf du Yémen). Pages 191-213 in John F. Healey and Venetia Porter (eds). Studies on Arabia in honour of Professor G. Rex Smith. (Journal of Semitic Studies. Supplement, 14). Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
| Rossi 2022: 199-201, 470, fig. 32a, 471, figs 32b-d | 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. |