al-Jawf 04.30
Arbach and Schiettecatte 2006: pl. 10/31
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 7 | ||
| Chronology |
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TEXT
1 [... ... ]ʿmkrb ḏ-Ḫlyfʿ
2 [... ...](y)hn b-ywm ʾlyfʿ
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 16.2, w. 35.5, th. 10 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maʿīn |
| Ancient site | Qrnw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Notes | The provenance of this fragment in unknown, but ʾlyfʿ is a typical royal name of Maʿīn. The fragment could come from Qrnw or Yṯl. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach and Schiettecatte 2006: 43, pl. 10/31 | 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] |
| Arbach 2022: 133, fig. 46 | Arbach, Mounir 2022. The city-states of the Jawf at the dawn of Ancient South Arabian history (8th-6th centuries BCE). I. From cities to kingdoms. (Arabia Antica, 17/1). Roma: «L'Erma» di Bretschneider. |
| Rossi 2022: 363 | 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. |