CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodA
Textual typologyDedicatory text - fragmentary (conjectural)

GENERAL NOTES

Halévy's copy.

TEXT


   1  ʾlkrb w-ʾbʾm[r ... ...]
   2  w-ʿmʾmr w-Ḫlʾ[mr ... ...]
   3  bhn[ ʾ](l)qwm ḏ-[... ...]
   4  w-ʿṯtr Ḥgr w-[... ... b-N]—
   5  bṭʿly w-ʿm[... ...]
   6  w-b ʾlqwm

Apparatus
3Robin restores ḏ[bḥ. If the previous name is the patronymic, it is more probable that ḏ introduces the name of the group; ḏbḥ as the main verb of the text would be unusual.
5For ʿm[... ...] as a possible name of a king, see as-Sawdāʾ 90 and al-Ḥarāshif 3; cf. also Kamna 10, 21 and 23.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin. Conjectural
Modern siteKamna
Ancient siteKmnhw
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī Madhab
CountryYemen
NotesAccording to Halévy, this inscription comes form as-Sawdāʾ. Robin supposes that the origin has to be corrected in Kamna on the basis of the mention of the god ʿṯtr Ḥgr and of the king Nbṭʿly.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Robin 1992 a: 191-192Robin, 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]
Rossi 2022: 244-245Rossi, 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.