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 |
6 | It is unsure whether the object of the dedication (ʾbrḍw) is the pillar or a person. |
English | |
1 ʾlʾws¹ son of Yfʿʾl, 2 of the clan Rymn, qyn 3 of Yḏmrmlk and Wtr- 4 ʾl and ʾl and ʿtr 5 Bʾs¹n and Haram, dedi- 6 cated to Mtbnṭyn ʾbrḍw, 7 when he was kbr of ʿrrht 8 (during) 3 (years), by the command of Ydʿ- 9 s¹mh and Mtbnṭyn, 10 and by Yḏmrmlk and Wtrʾl. |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Pillar |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 260, w. 55, th. 25 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Kharibat Hamdān |
Ancient site | Hrm |
Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of Mtbnṭyn |
Notes | When the inscriptions of the temple were recorded by Halévy, they were in situ. They disappeared after his visit. The temple was originally called Hdnn, then ʾrṯt. |
Link to site record |
Robin 1992 a: 76-77 | 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] |
Rossi 2022: 269-270 | 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. |