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Haram 7 CIH 513


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

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

TEXT

marker


   1  Hlkyfʿ bn ʿmʿ—
   2  hr ḏ-ʾhl Ḥrṯ S¹k—
   3  tn hqny Mtbnṭ—
   4  yn ʾlhl b-rʿẓ M—
   5  tbnṭyn w-ʾlʾlt
   6  Hrm b-ywm Yḏmr—
   7  mlk w-Wtrʾl

Apparatus
2S¹ktn occurs only in Haram 6 and 7. We consider it part of the name of the group, but Robin notes that we cannot exclude that it is instead a title of the dedicant.
4We do not know whether the object of the dedication (ʾlhl) is the pillar or a person.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Hlkyfʿ son of ʿmʿhr
   2  of the clan Ḥrṯ S¹ktn
   3  dedicated to Mtbnṭyn
   4  ʾlhl; by the command
   5  of Mtbnṭyn and the
   6  gods of Haram, at the time of
   7  Yḏmrmlk and Wtrʾl.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeArchitectural structure » Pillar
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteKharibat Hamdān
Ancient siteHrm
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī Madhab
CountryYemen
FoundIn situ
Archaeological contextReligious context: Temple of Ḥlfn (ʾrṯtm)
NotesWhen the inscriptions of the temple were recorded by Halévy, they were in situ. They disappeared after his visit. At the time of Haram 7 the temple was consecrated to Mtbnṭyn and called Hdnn, at the time of Haram 8 it was consecrated to Ḥlfn and called ʾrṯt.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Robin 1992 a: 70-71Robin, 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]
Rossi 2022: 267-268Rossi, 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.