YM 16620+YM 16621 SW-BA 14
Breton and Avanzini 2011: figs 135-138
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 6 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| It is difficult to propose the chronology of this text, because of its not archaic graphic style (very similar to that of Goam 317) and the attestation of the god ʿṯtr ḏ-Rṣfm which is absent in the texts of the Minaean period of Nashshān. We exclude a post-Minaean dating of this text (see the remarks to as-Sawdāʾ 16). Probably, the text dates back to a moment of transition between periods A and B, before the first abandonment of the temple. |
TEXT
1 Lḥyʿṯt bn Yḏkrʾl ḏ-B(ṯ)m s³lʾ ʿṯtr ḏ-Rṣfm ywm ʿs¹y-w-mʾd qny ʾb-s¹ b-Ḫr—
2 ztm w-s¹bql-s¹m /500/ b-ʿṯtr-ḏ-Rṣfm
| 1 | Dextrograde ḫ. |
| 1-2 | There is a word separator at the beginning of l.2, in the middle of the word Ḫrztm. Arbach, instead, considers Bḫr and ztm two different words, the first as the name of the dedicant's father (referred to the previous ʾb-s¹, but in contrast with the patronymic at the beginning of the inscription), the second without translation. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Lḥyʿṯt son of Yḏkrʾl ḏ-Bṯm dedicated to ʿṯtr ḏ-Rṣfm when he acquired and increased the property of his father in 2 Ḫrztm and he cultivated them (in number of) 500 (parcels), by ʿṯtr ḏ-Rṣfm. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 16620 YM 16621 |
| Support type | Artefact » Altar |
| Shape | Circular |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 54, d. 47 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | as-Sawdāʾ |
| Ancient site | Ns²n |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | In situ |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʿṯtr ḏ-Rṣf |
| Notes | The altar was found in the middle of the temple's court, during the excavations. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach and Audouin 2007: 10-11, cat. 2 | 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] |
| Breton and Avanzini 2011: 60-61, figs 135-138 | Breton, Jean-François and Avanzini, Alessandra 2011. Le matériel. (Chapitre 5). Pages 57-61 in Jean-François Breton (ed.). Le sanctuaire de ʿAthtar dhû-Riṣâf d'as-Sawdâʾ. (Arabia Antica, 7). Rome: «L'Erma» di Bretschneider. |
| Rossi 2022: 141-143, 461, fig. 14 | 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. |