Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic |
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian |
Script typology | Monumental writing |
Writing technique | Incision |
Measure of letters | 3.5 |
Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
The text could date back to the end of the phase A, beginning of B. |
English | |
1 Yṯʿkrb, from the city of ʿrrtm (?), made 2 a dedication to ʾlmqh, when Ydʿʾl Byn 3 appointed him and so 4 he became viceroy of and settled in Kamna, 5 during the war of ʾtmn; and let he and his children 6 and his properties be under 7 the will of ʾlmqh, through the obligation that he discharged. |
Deposit | Dhamār, Regional Museum, DhM 383 |
Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with framework |
Top | Concave |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 65, w. 37, th. 9 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | wādī al-Jawf |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Caubet and Gajda 2003 | Caubet, Annie and Gajda, Iwona 2003. Deux autels en bronze provenant de l'Arabie méridionale, suivi d'un appendice de Mme Françoise Demange sur la technique de fabrication (note d'information). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres: 1219-1242. |
Robin 2002 | Robin, Christian J. 2002. Vers une meilleure connaissance de Kaminahū (Jawf du Yémen). Pages 191-213 in John F. Healey and Venetia Porter (eds). Studies on Arabia in honour of Professor G. Rex Smith. (Journal of Semitic Studies. Supplement, 14). Oxford: Oxford University Press. |