Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 3 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text | ||
Royal inscription | Yes |
The catalogue of the museum wrongly reports a provenance of this inscription from Mārib. |
English | |
1 Ḏmrkrb Rym, son of 2 ʾls¹mʿ, king of Kmnhw, 3 and his commune of Kmnhw confessed 4 and did penance to ḏ-Mdhww, be- 5 cause they had to be surely protected by means of 6 their water-course and because they misdirected the 7 stream, which the document allotted (for them), and be- 8 cause they had to measure what they offered on the 9 day of performing service (for the god), on the day of (collecting) crops, 10 and because they had to give judgement on what was appro- 11 priated among the cultivated lands; and may the defence 12 be assured against the (corresponding) provision of the document on them (i.e. on the above mentioned cultivated lands). |
Frantsouzoff 2010: 163 | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2010. Once more on the interpretation of mṯl in Epigraphic South Arabian (a new expiatory inscription on irrigation from Kamna). Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 40: 161-170. |
Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, Military Museum, MṢM 148 |
Support type | Artefact » Slab |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 55, w. 27, th. 12 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Kamna |
Ancient site | Kmnhw |
Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Frantsouzoff 2010: 161-170, figs 1-4 | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2010. Once more on the interpretation of mṯl in Epigraphic South Arabian (a new expiatory inscription on irrigation from Kamna). Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 40: 161-170. |