Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 4.2 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text | ||
Royal inscription | Yes |
English | |
1 Ydʿʾb ʾmr son of 2 S¹mhyfʿ dedicated to 3 ʿṯtr ḏ-Ḏbn. |
Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum |
Support type | Artefact » Altar |
Shape | With truncated pyramidal base |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 90, w. 21.5, th. 19 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | as-Sawdāʾ |
Ancient site | Ns²n |
Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Arbach and Schiettecatte 2006: 49-50, pl. 12/36 | Arbach, Mounir and Schiettecatte, Jérémie 2006. Catalogue des pièces archéologiques et épigraphiques du Jawf au Musée National de Ṣanʿâʾ. Ṣanʿâʾ National Museum. Ṣanʿāʾ: Centre français d'archéologie et de sciences sociales de Ṣanʿâʾ. [Text in French and Arabic] |
Arbach and Rossi 2011: fig. 13 | Arbach, Mounir and Rossi, Irene 2011. Réflexions sur l'histoire de la cité-État de Nashshân (fin du IXe - fin du VIIe s. av. J.-C.). Egitto e vicino Oriente, 34: 149-176. |
Arbach 2022: 113, fig. 35 | Arbach, Mounir 2022. The city-states of the Jawf at the dawn of Ancient South Arabian history (8th-6th centuries BCE). I. From cities to kingdoms. (Arabia Antica, 17/1). Roma: «L'Erma» di Bretschneider. |
Rossi 2022: 120-121 | 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. |