DASI: Digital Archive for the Study of pre-islamic arabian Inscriptions: Epigraph details

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

Language	Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
Alphabet	Ancient South Arabian
Script typology	Monumental writing
Writing technique	Incision

GENERAL NOTES

Halévy's copy. According to Beeston's interpretation, this is a funerary text.

TEXT

Apparatus

1	Halévy's copy is ...wnyt. Beeston, on the basis of Hartmann, emendates [M]ʿnyt.
1-2	Beeston, on the basis of Conti Rossini, considers qrbnt a single word (meaning "offering").
2	Beeston emendates (ḏ)-S¹nt.
1-3	Beeston's translation of the whole text is: "[X. daughter of Y.], woman of Maʿīn, hierodule of (the temple) ḏ-S¹nt, was buried and interred".

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support type	Stone inscription
Material	Stone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance

Modern site	Kharibat Hamdān
Ancient site	Hrm
Geographical area	Jawf - Wādī Madhab
Country	Yemen
Notes	The inscription was found by Halévy in al-Firʿ.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Robin 1992 a: 93	Robin, Christian J. 1992. Inabbaʾ, Haram, al-Kāfir, Kamna et al-Ḥarāshif. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 1. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente]
Hartmann 1909: 380	Hartmann, Martin 1909. Die arabisch-islamischen Handschriften der Universitäts-Bibliothek zu Leipzig und der Sammlungen Hartmann und Haupt. Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete, 23: 235-266. 2023/12/12; https://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/dmg/periodical/titleinfo/118129.
Conti Rossini 1931: 234	Conti Rossini, Carlo (=Karolus) 1931. Chrestomathia Arabica Meridionalis Epigraphica. Rome: Istituto per l'Oriente.
Beeston 1950 a: 54-55	Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1950. Notes on Old South Arabian Lexicography I. Le Muséon, 63: 53-57.