CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

DASI

HSM 1936.1.15


By kind permission of Harvard Semitic Museum

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Measure of letters12
Chronology
PeriodA

GENERAL NOTES

The inscription is in Minaic because of the occurrence of the god ʿAthar Nashq and of its archaic script.

TEXT


   1  [... ...] w-ʿṯtr Ns²[q... ...]

Apparatus
1It could also be: ʿṯtr Ns²[qm].

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositCambridge MA, Harvard Semitic Museum, 1936.1.15
Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
Measuresh. 18.3, w. 29, th. 7
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin. Conjectural
Modern siteas-Sawdāʾ
Ancient siteNs²n
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī al-Buhayra
CountryYemen
NotesThe supposed origin of the object is only based on the restoration of the god ʿAthar Nashq, who belongs to the pantheon of this city during the phase A.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Huehnergard 2000: 199 (photo)Huehnergard, John 2000. Old south Arabian inscriptions in the Harvard Semitic Museum. Pages 196-206 in Lawrence E. Stager, Joseph A. Greene and Michael D. Coogan (eds). The archaeology of Jordan and beyond. Essays in honor of James A. Sauer. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.
Rossi 2022: 177Rossi, 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.