YM 24942+YM 24943
Arbach and Audouin 2007: 68
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Cast | ||
| Measure of letters | 3 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| The dating to period A is suggested by the presence of the divine epithet Mtbqbḍ. |
TEXT
1 (W)ddʾl w-S¹ʿdʾl w-Zydʾl w-ʾlʾws¹ bhny Mtʿn ḏ-Mrn s³l—
2 [ʾ] ʿṯtr Mtbqbḍ ʾl ʿwhn w-ʿ(w)hn ms¹lm w-mfḥmy ḏhbn
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Wddʾl and S¹ʿdʾl and Zydʾl and ʾlʾws¹ sons of Mtʿn ḏ-Mrn dedicated 2 to ʿṯtr Mtbqbḍ, god of ʿwhn, and ʿwhn an altar and two incense burners in bronze. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 24942+YM 24943 |
| Support type | Artefact » Offering table » With bull head as gutter (ms¹lm) |
| Material | Bronze |
| Measures | h. 13, w. 65, th. 29 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maʿīn |
| Ancient site | Qrnw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
This is one of the two attestations of the ancient name of god Mtbqbḍ used as an epithet of ʿṯtr (cf. YM 30135). ʿwhn is here a name of group and of god (maybe an eponymous ancestor? Cf. YM 24905).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach and Audouin 2007: 68-69, cat. 41 | 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] |
| Rossi 2022: 324-325, 487, fig. 61 | 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. |