Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
2 | S¹ktn occurs only in Haram 6 and 7. We consider it part of the name of the group, but Robin notes that we cannot exclude that it is instead a title of the dedicant. |
4 | We do not know whether the object of the dedication (ʾlhl) is the pillar or a person. |
English | |
1 Hlkyfʿ son of ʿmʿhr 2 of the clan Ḥrṯ S¹ktn 3 dedicated to Mtbnṭyn 4 ʾlhl; by the command 5 of Mtbnṭyn and the 6 gods of Haram, at the time of 7 Yḏmrmlk and Wtrʾl. |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Pillar |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Kharibat Hamdān |
Ancient site | Hrm |
Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of Ḥlfn (ʾrṯtm) |
Notes | When the inscriptions of the temple were recorded by Halévy, they were in situ. They disappeared after his visit. At the time of Haram 7 the temple was consecrated to Mtbnṭyn and called Hdnn, at the time of Haram 8 it was consecrated to Ḥlfn and called ʾrṯt. |
Link to site record |
Robin 1992 a: 70-71 | 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: 267-268 | 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. |