YM 24905
Arbach and Audouin 2007: 98
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 6.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| It is not sure if this text belongs to period A, but, as far as we know, the locution "b-hn l-" following the verb is found only in archaic penitential texts (Shaqab 19 and YM 10886). Yet, it is not clear if this is a merely chronological feature. |
TEXT
1 ʿṯtryhn bhn ʿwhn nt→ḏr k-ʿhn b-hn l-→yḏbḥn-s¹ w-(ʾl) ʿrb nḏ-s¹((nḏs¹))
| 1 | as bhn implies a plural subject, one should consider the possibility that ʿṯtryhn is a plural name (a nisbe?), or that there is a lacuna on the previous side of the altar. However, according to the editors, the text inscribed on three sides is complete. It is unsure whether ʿwhn is a name of group or a patronymic. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...] ʿṯtryhn sons of ʿwhn did penance to ʿhn because they should have made (?) a sacrifice for him and they didn't offer his nḏ (or: the nḏs¹). |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 24905 |
| Support type | Artefact » Offering table » With plain gutter |
| Material | Alabaster |
| Measures | h. 7.5, w. 55.5, th. 39 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
This expiatory inscription is very short and lacks the verb ntḫy. The offence probably consisted in a wrongly performed ritual, with the omission of an offer whose nature cannot be established.
This is the only attestation of the god ʿhn in the corpus of South Arabian inscriptions.
Note that the name ʿwhn, which here is a name of group or a patronymic, is found only in YM 24942-24943, as a theonym and also as the name of ʿṯtr Mtbqbḍ's sanctuary.
This is the only attestation of the god ʿhn in the corpus of South Arabian inscriptions.
Note that the name ʿwhn, which here is a name of group or a patronymic, is found only in YM 24942-24943, as a theonym and also as the name of ʿṯtr Mtbqbḍ's sanctuary.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach and Audouin 2007: 98, cat. 65 | Arbach, Mounir and Audouin, Rémy 2007. Collection of Epigraphic and Archaeological Artifacts from al-Jawf Sites. Ṣanʿâʾ National Museum. 2. Ṣanʿāʾ: UNESCO-SFD / Ṣanʿāʾ: National Museum. [Text in English and Arabic] |
| Rossi 2022: 328-331, 488, fig. 63 | 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. |