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YM 29938


Arbach and Audouin 2007: 47

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionBoustrophedon
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Measure of letters6
Chronology
PeriodA
Textual typologyDedicatory text - fragmentary

TEXT

marker


   1  [... ... ](S¹m)hʾmr hqny
   2  (Yd)[ʿ](s¹m)hw

Apparatus
1On the basis of the commparison with YM 11231, we could probably restore [... ... ʿbd ](S¹m)hʾmr.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  [... ...] S¹mhʾmr dedicated
   2  to Ydʿs¹mhw.

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositṢanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 29938
Support typeArtefact » Stela » Stela with framework
MaterialAlabaster
Dimensionsh. 32.5, w. 32, th. 7.5
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteKharibat Hamdān
Ancient siteHrm
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī Madhab
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Arbach and Audouin 2007: 47 (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]
Arbach 2022: 89, fig. 29Arbach, Mounir 2022. The city-states of the Jawf at the dawn of Ancient South Arabian history (8th-6th centuries BCE). I. From cities to kingdoms. (Arabia Antica, 17/1). Roma: «L'Erma» di Bretschneider. 2025/12/29; https://doi.org/10.48255/9788891322920.
Rossi 2022: 255Rossi, 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.