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 | Dedicatory text - fragmentary (conjectural) |
Probably, this text was inscribed on another face of the same offering table of Kamna 14 A. Hal 274 is the copy of one of the two fragments of this text. |
1-2 | the readings by RES, Mordtmann and Müller, and Halévy differ. Here we adopt the reading by RES, but note that RES restored m[ṯʿyt ... ...]. |
1 | Halévy: rḍw-s¹ fnw[t .... Mordtmann and Müller: r]ḍw-s¹ fn[w]t w-ʿrb (m). |
2 | Halévy: brʿẓ Nb. Mordtmann and Müller: b]rʿẓ N[bʿ]l w-ʿṯtr. |
Deposit | Istanbul, Ancient Orient Museum, 7458-7460 |
Support type | Artefact » Offering table » With ibex frieze |
Material | Stone |
Measures | Kamna 14 A: h. 23, w. 47; Kamna 14 B: h. 15, w. about 36; Kamna 14 C: h. 19, w. 17, th. 15 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Kamna |
Ancient site | Kmnhw |
Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Mordtmann and Müller, David H. 1883: 78-79 | Mordtmann, Johannes H. and Müller, David H. 1883. Sabäische Denkmälern. (Denkschriften der Kaiserilichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 33). Vienna: In commission bei Karl Gerold's Sohn. |
Robin 1992 a: 185-187 | 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: 245-247 | 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. |