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YM 28823
Arbach and Audouin 2007: 44
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 6 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
1 ʾlʿz bn Ṣrḥm→| hqny ʿṯtr B→ʾs¹n b-ʾlmqh w-→b-Ydʿs¹mhw→
2 w-b ʿṯtr ḏ-R→gmt((Rgmt)) w-b ʾḫḫt→n w-b Ydʿʾl w-b→ | Wtrʾl |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 ʾlʿz son of Ṣrḥm dedicated to ʿṯtr Bʾs¹n, by ʾlmqh and by Ydʿs¹mhw 2 and by ʿṯtr ḏ-Rgmt and by ʾḫḫtn and by Ydʿʾl and by Wtrʾl. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 28823 |
| Support type | Artefact » Offering table » With bull head as gutter |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 19, w. 41, th. 48 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Kharibat Hamdān |
| Ancient site | Hrm |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
This ancient text, dedicated to the gods of the tribe of Haram and to ʾlmqh, testifies a period of alliance between Haram and Sabaʾ, with their kings Wtrʾl and Ydʿʾl. The inscriptions in the Haram temple of the "Banāt ʿAd", known by Halévy's copies, could be plausibly dated back to this period, as they mention Wtrʾl and are written in Minaic as well as in Sabaic.
The only other mention of the god ʾḫḫtn is in the Ancient Sabaic text A-20-1029. ʿṯtr appears in this text with the interesting epithet ḏ-Rgmt, that recalls his cult in the oasis of Najrān (see Robin 2010 b: 44).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach and Audouin 2007: 44-45 (photo) | Arbach, Mounir and Audouin, Rémy 2007. Collection of Epigraphic and Archaeological Artifacts from al-Jawf Sites. Ṣanʿâʾ National Museum. 2. Ṣanʿāʾ: UNESCO-SFD / Ṣanʿāʾ: National Museum. [Text in English and Arabic] |
| Robin 2010 b | Robin, Christian J. 2010. Nagrān vers l'époque du massacre: notes sur l'histoire politique, économique et institutionnelle et sur l'introduction du christianisme (avec un réexamen du Martyre d'Azqīr). Pages 39-106 in Joëlle Beaucamp, Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet and Christian J. Robin (eds). Juifs et chrétiens en Arabie aux Ve et VIe siècles. Regards croisés sur les sources. Joëlle Beaucamp, Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet and Christian J. Robin (eds), Le massacre de Najrân. Religion et politique en Arabie du Sud au VIe siècle. 32. (Travaux et mémoires du Centre de recherche d’histoire et civilisation de Byzance. Monographies). Paris: Association des amis du Centre d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance. |
| Rossi 2022: 256-257, 481, fig. 49 | 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. |