Kamna 29
Arbach and Rossi 2014: 49, fig. 2
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| 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 |
TEXT
1 ʾlrym bn ʿmʾns¹ ḏ-Ḫṭṭ q—
2 yn ʿmkrb w-Wqhʾb s³lʾ ʿ—
3 ṯtr ḏ-Rḥbh ʾbs²wr b-rʿẓ N—
4 bʿl w-ʿṯtr ḏ-Rḥbh w-Mdhww w-ʿṯtr Ḥgr b-yw—
5 [m ʿmkrb ]w-Wqhʾb w-b ʿmʾns¹
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 ʾlrym, son of ʿmʾns¹, of the family Ḫṭṭ, 2 qyn of ʿmkrb and Wqhʾb, dedicated to 3 ʿṯtr ḏ-Rḥbh: ʾbs²wr; by the command of 4 Nbʿl and ʿṯtr ḏ-Rḥbh and Mdhww and ʿṯtr Ḥgr, at the time 5 [of ʿmkrb] and Wqhʾb, and by ʿmʾns¹. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum, no number |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Kamna |
| Ancient site | Kmnhw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʿṯtr ḏ-Rḥbh |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach and Rossi 2014: 49 (fig. 2), 57 | Arbach, Mounir and Rossi, Irene 2014. Kamna, une cité prospère du Jawf du Yémen aux VIIIe-VIe siècles avant J.-C.. Semitica et Classica, 7: 45-61. |
| Arbach 2022: 79, fig. 23 | 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: 198-199 | 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. |