al-Ḥarāshif 2
Robin 1992 a: pl. LIX/a
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text (conjectural) | ||
| Royal inscription | Yes |
GENERAL NOTES
| The textual typology is uncertain: construction text or onomastic text (see the apparatus and translation notes). |
TEXT
1 Nbṭʿly ʾmr bn ʾls¹mʿ
2 bny Ḥmrw w-s²ʿb-s¹
| 2 | if we consider the text a nominal sentence, Ḥmrw should be the name of the family or of an ancestor of the king, and not a name of building. Robin hypothetically suggests that Ḥmrw or Tḥty (al-Ḥarāshif 3) could be the ancient name of the site (Robin 1992 a: 198). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Nbṭʿly ʾmr son of ʾls¹mʿ 2 built Ḥmrw with his tribe. |
| The syntactic construction of the text that this translation supposes is unusual, as it sets the second subject of the verb at the end of the sentence. An alternative hypothesis is to consider the inscription a nominal sentence ("Nbṭʿly ʾmr son of ʾls¹mʿ of the clan Ḥmrw and his tribe); however, the mention of the affiliating clan or ancestor is rather unusual in a royal inscription and, as Robin affirms, "en dehors de nécropoles, il est inhabituel qu'une inscription monumentale ne comporte pas de verbe". |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 33, w. 80 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | al-Ḥarāshif |
| Ancient site | Ḥmrw (?) / Tḥty (?) |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
The graphic features of the text and the name of the mentioned king show that the site of al-Ḥarāshif - very close to the kingdom of Kamna - was under the political control of the latter, at least for a period of time.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Robin 1992 a: 199-200, pl. 59/a | 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: 190 | 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. |