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Haram 43 RES 3327; M 306
By kind permission of British Museum
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 | ||
| Measure of letters | 3 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
1 ʿmḏrʾ w-
2 Hwfwd b—
3 ny ʾws¹-ḏ-
4 Zlmn s³lʾ
5 ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍ
6 mfḥmnyhn |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 ʿmḏrʾ and 2 Hwfwd, sons 3 of ʾws¹ ḏ- 4 Zlmn, dedicated 5 to ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍ 6 the two incense burners. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 125111=1887,0629.9 |
| Support type | Artefact » Incense burner (mfḥm) |
| Shape | With truncated pyramidal base |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 30, w. 15 |
| 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 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Pirenne 1956: pl. XXVIIId | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1956. Paléographie des inscriptions sud-arabes. Contribution à la chronologie et à l'histoire de l'Arabie du sud antique. (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België. Klasse der letteren, 26). Brussels: Paleis der Academiën. |
| Robin 1992 a: 113-114, pl. 15 | Robin, 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] |