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al-Shihāb 2025
al-Shihāb 2025: 6, bottom-right figure
al-Shihāb 2025: 6, bottom-right figure
al-Shihāb 2025: 6, bottom-left figure
al-Shihāb 2025: 6, top-left figure
al-Shihāb 2025: 6, top-right figure
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
| A photo of the right side of this object is also published on the cover of ʾAzal 7, 2024 (https://goam.gov.ye/Magzd/23). |
TEXT
1 ʾl(ʾw)s¹ bn (B)[.]←ḥ ḏ-Mrym (s³)lʾ ← ʿṯtr Nkrḥ
| 1 | If the reading of the B is confirmed, the patronymic could be restored as Bḥḥ (cf. in Minaic YM 28538). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 ʾlʾws¹ son of B[.]ḥ of (the family) Mrym dedicated to ʿṯtr Nkrḥ |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Incense burner |
| Shape | With truncated pyramidal base |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maʿīn |
| Ancient site | Qrnw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Notes | We infer a provenance from Maʿīn based on the deity mentioned, ʿṯtr Nkrḥ (cf. YM 30135). |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| al-Shihāb 2025: 3-6, with figures | al-Shihāb, Sāmī Sharaf Muḥammad 2025. Taqrīr ʿan mabḫara min al-ḥaǧar al-ǧirī ʿalā hayʾat maʿbad. ʾAzal: Ḥawliyat al-Āthār al-Yamaniyya, 8: 3-6. 2026/01/08; https://goam.gov.ye/assets/magzd/Azal/8/8-2.pdf. |