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 |
5 | We do not know whether the object of the dedication (ʾbḥmy) is the pillar or a person. Its name is restored on the base of Haram 16, as there are the same first and last letters. However, it is unusual that the same dedication is commemorated in two different inscriptions. |
English | |
1 ʿmʾns¹ son of Klbm, 2 kbr of the stone polishers (?), 3 servant of Wtrʾl, 4 dedicated to 5 Mtbnṭyn ʾbḥmy, 6 by ḏt Ḥmym 7 and by ʿṯtr Bʾs¹n 8 and by the gods 9 of Haram, and by the 10 command of Wtrʾl 11 and Haram. |
2 | 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: 86-87 | 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: 272-273 | 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. |