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Fr-Ṣanʿāʾ 6
Frantsouzoff 2023: 103, fig. 1
Frantsouzoff 2023: 103, fig. 1
Frantsouzoff 2023: 103, fig. 2
Frantsouzoff 2023: 103, fig. 3
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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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| Based on palaeographic and prosopographic coincidences, Frantsouzoff asseses the contemporaneity of this inscription with al-Jawf 04.39. |
TEXT
1 ʾbkhl ḏt byt Ḥmʿṯt ḏy-S²—
2 bm ʾm ʿms²fq w-ʾlḏ—
3 rʾ w-Rʾb s³lʾt ʿṯtr ḏ-Grb
4 bḥtn b-hn ṣdq b-m ṣdq sd—
5 q ʾb-s¹m Ḥmʿṯt b-trṯt Ḥḏm—
6 [r ḏ-Frs³n ... ...]
| 5-6 | Frantsouzoff proposes the restoration of the names based on al-Jawf 04.39. |
TRANSLATIONS
| French | |
1 Abīkahal, mariée dans le lignage de Ḥammaʿathat dhī Shi- 2 bām, mère de ʿAmmīshafaq et Ilīʿazz et Ilīdha- 3 raʾ et Raʾab, a dédié à ʿAthar dhū Garab 4 (l'objet votif nommé) bḥt, parce quʾils ont établi les droits de propriété sur ce que 5 leur père Ḥammaʿathat avait (déjà) établi le droit de propriété, (notamment) sur lʾhéritage de Ḥadhmar[r] 6 [(dhū Farśān?)...] |
| 4 | Frantsouzoff does not accept the translation of bḥt as "slab" proposed by Multhoff. |
| 5 | Frantsouzoff notes that trṯt derives from the root WRṮ. |
| Frantsouzoff 2023: 103 | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2023. Sur le droit d'hérédité en Arabie méridionale antique. Pages 129-138 in Iwona Gajda and Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet (eds). Arabie – Arabies. Volume offert à Christian Julien Robin par ses collègues, ses élèves et ses amis. Avec la collaboration de Denise Aigle. Paris: Geuthner. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Slab (bḥt) |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | as-Sawdāʾ |
| Ancient site | Ns²n |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Funerary context: Temple of ʿṯtr ḏ-Grb |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
According to Frantsouzoff, Fr-Ṣanʿāʾ 6 and al-Jawf 04.39 attest to the establishment of property rights by four brothers over the inheritance left by a further brother, belonging to a different family. This would imply that the brother was born from a previous marriage of their mother.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Frantsouzoff 2023: 103-107, figs 1-3 | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2023. Sur le droit d'hérédité en Arabie méridionale antique. Pages 129-138 in Iwona Gajda and Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet (eds). Arabie – Arabies. Volume offert à Christian Julien Robin par ses collègues, ses élèves et ses amis. Avec la collaboration de Denise Aigle. Paris: Geuthner. |