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Kamna 35
J.-F. Breton
Breton and Arbach 2020: 102, fig. 17
Breton and Arbach 2020: 102, fig. 17
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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TEXT
1 [... ...](ʾ)ns¹ bn Frḫ w-[... ...]
2 [... ...W](d) w-ʾrnydʿ Ẓw[r... ...]
| 1 | Arbach proposes to restore the first name as ʾbʾns¹ on the basis of its recurrence in other local inscriptions; however, other restorations are possible, such as ʿmʾns¹ (e.g. Kamna 29) and Ddʾns¹ (e.g. Kamna 9) (Rossi 2022: 243). |
| 2 | As Arbach notes, the last name could be Ẓwr or a longer name built on Ẓwr as the first element (Rossi 2022: 243). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...] ʾns¹ son of Frḫ and [... ...] 2 [... ...] Wd and ʾrnydʿ Ẓwr[... ...] |
| Rossi 2022: 243 | 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. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Architectural structure » Lintel |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 30, w. 74 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Kamna |
| Ancient site | Kmnhw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | In situ |
| Notes | This fragmentary limestone lintel was found by Breton in 1987 in the north-eastern part of Kamna. It belongs to a structure that might have been a temple, a public building, or a private dwelling construction (Breton and Arbach 2020: 84). |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
The mention of the tutelary god of Nashshān ʾrnydʿ in the second line suggests that this inscription originated from a period of alliance or most probably submission of Kamna to Nashshān, towards the mid-8th c. BCE as palaeographical analysis suggests (Rossi 2022: 243).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Breton and Arbach 2020: 84-87, 102, fig. 17 | Breton, Jean-François and Arbach, Mounir 2020. Kamna, une cité archaïque du Jawf (Yémen). Pages 71-102 in I. V. Zaitsev (ed.). Arabian Antiquities. Studies Dedicated to A. Sedov on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. Moscow: Oriental Literature Publisher. |
| Rossi 2022: 243 | 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. |