CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


Arbach and Audouin 2007: 19

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodA

TEXT


   1  [... ... ʿṯ]tr [..](r)((Ḥgr))
   2  [... ...]

Apparatus
1-2Grb (Arbach), but this epithet of ʿṯtr is normally preceded by the pronoun ḏ. If the word is really an epithet of ʿṯtr, the most probable restoration - on the basis of the lenght of the gap - should be Ḥgr.

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositṢanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 23249
Support typeArtefact » Stela » Stela with framework
MaterialAlabaster
Measuresh. 54.5, w. 28, th. 7
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin. Conjectural
Modern siteKamna
Ancient siteKmnhw
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī Madhab
CountryYemen
NotesAccording to the editors, the text comes from Nashshān, on the basis of the divine epithet they restore (Grb). However, this reading is very uncertain and it is possible that the text originated from Kamna (see the textual remark on the reading Ḥgr).
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Arbach and Audouin 2007: 19, cat. 9Arbach, 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: 241, 480, fig. 46Rossi, 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.