Shaqab 7
Gnoli 1993: pl. 0
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 4.8 | ||
| Chronology |
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TEXT
1 [... ... ʿ](ṯ)tr ḏ-Yhrq b-f(r)↯[ʿ] frʿ-s¹ ywm ḏbḥ ḏ-Yhrq b-(yw)—
2 [m ... ...]
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ... ]ʿṯtr ḏ-Yhrq with the firstfruits he offered Him, when he made a sacrifice to ḏ-Yhrq, at the time 2 of [... ...] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Altar |
| Shape | Squared |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 18, w. 107, th. 43.5 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Shaqab al-Manaṣṣa |
| Ancient site | Yhrq (?) |
| Geographical area | Southern Jawf |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʿṯtr ḏ-Yhrq |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Gnoli 1993: 83-84, pl. 10 | Gnoli, Gherardo 1993. Shaqab al-Manaṣṣa. Con diciotto tavole fuori testo. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 2. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente] |
| Rossi 2022: 372-373, 494, fig. 72 | 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. |