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 |
1 | The last letter of the line is damaged in its upper part: it could be a y, h, l or g; in any case, this word would be a hapax. |
2 | Note that the name Ys²hrmlk (cf. the inscriptions Tairan 2006 and Haram 2) is written divided in the two parts: Ys²hr Mlk. |
English | |
1 Yḏkrʾl and Lḥyʿṯt and Hmtʿwd and Hwfʿṯt, sons of ʿbd ḏ-ʿs²rn of the clan ʾkwy, dedicated to ʿṯtr Bʾs¹n the altar, when they cultivated 2 their "[.]gw" (?) Bs¹r, at the time of ʾlkbr ʾmr and Ys²hrmlk Nbṭ. |
Deposit | Unknown, Unknown (Private collection) |
Support type | Artefact » Altar (mṣrb) |
Shape | Squared |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Kharibat Hamdān |
Ancient site | Hrm |
Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Bron 2010 a: 163-165, fig. 1 | Bron, François 2010. Nouvelles inscriptions sudarabiques. Semitica et Classica, 3: 163-175. |
Rossi 2022: 280 | 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. |