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Kamna 36


Breton and Arbach 2020: 102, fig. 18
By kind permission of M. Arbach

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodA
Textual typologyDedicatory text

TEXT

marker


   1  Ṣbḥn bn Ḥyw w-Ẓwrwqh ʾb
   2  ʾws¹ s³lʾ ʾl Yfʿn b-ʾls¹mʿ

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Ṣbḥn son of Ḥyw and Ẓwrwqh father of
   2  ʾws¹ dedicated to ʾl Yfʿn, by ʾls¹mʿ.
Rossi 2022: 211-212Rossi, 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

DepositṢanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 16711
Support typeArtefact » Altar
ShapeSquared
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 12, w. 54, th. 36.5
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteKamna
Ancient siteKmnhw
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī Madhab
CountryYemen
Archaeological contextReligious context
NotesPossibly from a temple or shrine of ʾl Yfʿn (Rossi 2022: 211).
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Breton and Arbach 2020: 87-89, 102, fig. 18Breton, 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: 211-212, 473, fig. 35Rossi, 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.