Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary (conjectural) |
Palaeographically, this text seems rather late. The mention, in this Minaic inscription, of a king of Haram together with the god of the traditional Haramite pantheon Mtbnṭyn suggest to Robin a dating in the first half of the 2nd century BC, in a period of independence of the town before the affirmation of the language and gods of the ʾAmīr tribe. |
English | |
[... ...] 1 Mtbnṭyn the stone(?) offering table 2 by their lord Mʿdkrb Ryd- 3 n son of Hwtrʿṯt, king of Haram. |
Deposit | Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Sem 13 |
Support type | Artefact » Altar (ms¹lm) |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 13, w. 31 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Kharibat Hamdān |
Ancient site | Hrm |
Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
Country | Yemen |
Notes | The provenance of the inscription was not recorded, but it mentions a king of Haram. |
Link to site record |
Müller, David H. 1899: pl. V | Müller, David H. (ed.) 1899. Südarabische Altertümer im Kunsthistorischen Hofmuseum. Vienna: Alfred Hölder. [Im Auftrage und mit Unterstützung des Oberstlämmerer-Amtes seiner K. und K. Apost. Majestät] |
Robin 1992 a: 116-117, pl. 18/a | 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] |