YM 16631 SW-BA 9
Breton and Avanzini 2011: fig. 132
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 11.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
TEXT
1 ʿm[... ... s³l](ʾ) ʿ—
2 ṯtr ḏ-Rṣfm mṣrbn
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 ʿm[... ... dedica]ted to 2 ʿṯtr ḏ-Rṣfm the altar. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 16631 |
| Support type | Artefact » Altar (mṣrb) |
| Shape | With rectangular base |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 63, w. 30, th. 27 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | as-Sawdāʾ |
| Ancient site | Ns²n |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʿṯtr ḏ-Rṣf |
| Notes | The object was found during the excavations in the temple. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach and Audouin 2007: 13, cat. 4 | Arbach, Mounir and Audouin, Rémy 2007. Collection of Epigraphic and Archaeological Artifacts from al-Jawf Sites. Ṣanʿâʾ National Museum. 2. Ṣanʿāʾ: UNESCO-SFD / Ṣanʿāʾ: National Museum. [Text in English and Arabic] |
| Breton and Avanzini 2011: 59, fig. 132 | Breton, Jean-François and Avanzini, Alessandra 2011. Le matériel. (Chapitre 5). Pages 57-61 in Jean-François Breton (ed.). Le sanctuaire de ʿAthtar dhû-Riṣâf d'as-Sawdâʾ. (Arabia Antica, 7). Rome: «L'Erma» di Bretschneider. |
| Rossi 2022: 143 | 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. |