Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 8.5 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text |
Archaic graphic style: letters ḥ and ṣ. |
1-2 | Robin hypothetically suggests that Tḥty (here and at l. 3) or Ḥmrw (al-Ḥarāshif 2) could be the ancient name of the site (Robin 1992 a: 198). According to Jamme, instead, bn introduces two names of group (1996: 84). |
English | |
1 Ṣbḥn son of Ṣdqs¹mʿ and Tḥty 2 erected this portico (?), at the time of ʿmyṯʿ 3 and ʿms²fq and (when) he was kbr of Tḥty. |
2 | rṣf: Robin suggests that this a dialectal or graphic variant of rṣf. Jamme, instead, compares to Ar. raṣafa “to pave” (Jamme 1996: 84). |
Jamme 1996: 84 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1996. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XIX. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A201357#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed] |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 33, w. 100 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | al-Ḥarāshif |
Ancient site | Ḥmrw (?) / Tḥty (?) |
Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Link to site record |
Robin 1992 a: 200-201, pl. 59/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] |
Jamme 1996: 84 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1996. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XIX. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A201357#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed] |
Rossi 2022: 93-94, 456, fig. 3 | 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. |