al-Jawf 04.32
Arbach and Schiettecatte 2006: pl. 11/33
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 7.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
1 ʾbwṯn bnt Ys³qʾl ḏ-Ṣnʿ s³l—
2 ʾt Nkrḥ ywm mlkt Nṭʿhtn((nṭʿhtn))
| 2 | it is not sure whether Nṭʿhtn is a name of place (Arbach and Schiettecatte 2006 and Arbach 2005) or of some other kind of property (Bron 2013). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 ʾbwṯn daughter of Ys³qʾl ḏ-Ṣnʿ dedicated 2 to Nkrḥ, when she came into possession of Nṭʿhtn (or, of the plantations). |
| 2 | The translation "plantations" for nṭʿhtn is suggested by Bron on the basis of the comparison with the Heb. NṬʿ "to plant" (with the Minaic feminine plural ending -ht). |
| Bron 2013 a: 175-176 | Bron, François 2013. Notes d'épigraphie minéenne. Semitica, 53: 173-178. [Pages 173-174: Une stèle funéraire d'un roi de Maʿīn; pages 175-176: Al-Jawf 04.32; pages 176-178: Une mention méconnue de la ville de Gaza.] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 18, w. 72, th. 11.5 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | wādī al-Jawf |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
This is one of the few Minaic inscriptions dedicated by a woman.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach 2005 d | Arbach, Mounir 2005. Une reine en Arabie du Sud? Abîwathan fille de Yasaqʾîl, dáprès une inscription provenant de la région du Jawf. Chroniques Yéménites, 12: 19-26. |
| Arbach and Schiettecatte 2006: 44, pl. 11/33 | Arbach, Mounir and Schiettecatte, Jérémie 2006. Catalogue des pièces archéologiques et épigraphiques du Jawf au Musée National de Ṣanʿâʾ. Ṣanʿâʾ National Museum. Ṣanʿāʾ: Centre français d'archéologie et de sciences sociales de Ṣanʿâʾ. [Text in French and Arabic] |
| Bron 2013 a: 175-176 | Bron, François 2013. Notes d'épigraphie minéenne. Semitica, 53: 173-178. [Pages 173-174: Une stèle funéraire d'un roi de Maʿīn; pages 175-176: Al-Jawf 04.32; pages 176-178: Une mention méconnue de la ville de Gaza.] |
| Rossi 2022: 318, 486, fig. 59 | 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. |