| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Halévy's copy. |
| 1 | Halévy: ṯw w-ʿms²f. Possible restoration of the first word: ʿmy]ṯʿ. ʿmyṯʿ and ʿms²fq are royal names in other inscriptions. |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
| Modern site | Kamna |
| Ancient site | Kmnhw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Notes | The origin from Kamna is conjectural. Halévy, and so the first editors, recorded the inscription as coming from as-Sawdāʾ. Instead, Avanzini sees in the names in l.1 two ancient kings of Kamna: ʿmyṯʿ and ʿms²fq. However, the first name is restored and there is no proof that these were kings of Kamna, as they are attested mainly in texts from Nashshān. |
| Link to site record |
| Avanzini 1995: 209-210 | Avanzini, Alessandra 1995. As-Sawdāʾ. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 4. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente] |
| Rossi 2022: 241-242 | 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. |