Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 5.2 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary (conjectural) |
The texts Kamna 14 A, B and C were probably inscribed on different faces of one offering table. Only the photograph of Kamna 14 A (the text on the anterior face) is available. Above the edge of the fragment A, runs the text Kamna 14 A bis: [... ...]fq bḥ[... ...]. |
4 | At the end: (b-y)[wm ... ...] (Robin). |
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 |
Pirenne 1956: pl. III/b | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1956. Paléographie des inscriptions sud-arabes. Contribution à la chronologie et à l'histoire de l'Arabie du sud antique. (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België. Klasse der letteren, 26). Brussels: Paleis der Academiën. |
Robin 1992 a: 185-187, pl. 54/b | 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. |