Language | Ancient South Arabian » Undefined Ancient South Arabian language | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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As the text is composed by only two letters, we cannot say whether it is Ancient Sabaic or Minaic. |
Maybe a monogram. Robin suggests that it can be the identification of a stonemason. |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Block |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Inabbaʾ |
Ancient site | ʾnbʾ |
Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Link to site record |
Robin 1992 a: 6, pl. 3/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] |
Rossi 2022: 380 | 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. |