DASI: Digital Archive for the Study of pre-islamic arabian Inscriptions: Epigraph details

By kind permission of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

By kind permission of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Robin 1992 a: pl. 18/a
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

Language

Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic

Alphabet

Ancient South Arabian

Script typology

Monumental writing

Writing technique

Incision

Chronology

Period

Textual typology

Dedicatory text - fragmentary (conjectural)

GENERAL NOTES

Palaeographically, this text seems rather late. The mention, in this Minaic inscription, of a king of Haram together with the god of the traditional Haramite pantheon Mtbnṭyn suggest to Robin a dating in the first half of the 2nd century BC, in a period of independence of the town before the affirmation of the language and gods of the ʾAmīr tribe.

TEXT

TRANSLATIONS

CSAI

English
[... ...] 1 Mtbnṭyn the stone(?) offering table 2 by their lord Mʿdkrb Ryd- 3 n son of Hwtrʿṯt, king of Haram.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Deposit	Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Sem 13
Support type	Artefact » Altar (ms¹lm)
Material	Stone
Measures	h. 13, w. 31
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin

Modern site	Kharibat Hamdān
Ancient site	Hrm
Geographical area	Jawf - Wādī Madhab
Country	Yemen
Notes	The provenance of the inscription was not recorded, but it mentions a king of Haram.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Müller, David H. 1899: pl. V	Müller, David H. (ed.) 1899. Südarabische Altertümer im Kunsthistorischen Hofmuseum. Vienna: Alfred Hölder. [Im Auftrage und mit Unterstützung des Oberstlämmerer-Amtes seiner K. und K. Apost. Majestät]
Robin 1992 a: 116-117, pl. 18/a	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]