Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 8.5 | ||
Chronology |
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Up to now, all the inscriptions from Kamna are in Minaic language; this is why we consider this text Minaic. |
Support type | Artefact » Stela |
Material | Stone |
Measures | w. 58 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Kamna |
Ancient site | Kmnhw |
Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Notes | When found, the stela was in situ. It had already disappeared at the time of the second visit of the MAFRAY on the site. |
Link to site record |
Robin 1992 a: 169-170, pl. 45/b | 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] |
Rossi 2022: 238-239, 480, fig. 45 | 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. |