| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
| 4 | The name of the god to whom the dedication is addressed is not mentioned, but it was surely Mtbnṭyn, as in all the other texts in the temple (in particular, see Haram 17). |
| 2 | Nhmtn is restored on the basis of its occurrences in Haram 17 and 19. However, as the letter "m" always lacks, it is a hypothetical restoration (Robin 1992 a: 86). |
| 4 | We do not know whether the object of the dedication (ʾbḥmy) is the pillar or a person. |
| English | |
1 ʿmʾns¹ son of 2 Klbm, kbr of the 3 stone polishers (?), servant of 4 Wtrʾl, dedicated 5 ʾbḥmy, by ḏt 6 Ḥmym and by ʿṯtr 7 Bʾs¹n and by the gods 8 of Haram, and 9 by the command of 10 Wtrʾl and Haram. |
| 3 | nhmtn: translation by Robin. |
| 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 extra muros temple were recorded by Halévy, they were in situ; they disappeared after his visit. For the reconstruction of the position of the pillars in the temple, see Robin 1992 a: 19, fig. 1. The temple was originally called Hdnn. |
| Link to site record |
| Robin 1992 a: 85-86 | 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: 270-272 | 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. |