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Raybūn-Kafas/Naʿmān 71
Frantsouzoff 2007: pl. 59b-f
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Ḥaḍramitic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 5.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| The text could be of the period B. |
TEXT
1 Yʿwb →w-Gḏfm g→rbyhn hqny→w ḏt Ḥmym
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Yʿwb and Gḏfm the stonemasons dedicated to ḏt Ḥmym. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Sayʾūn, Museum, 2664 |
| Support type | Artefact » Offering table » With plain gutter |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 27, th. 20 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Raybūn |
| Ancient site | Rybn [oasis] |
| Geographical area | Central Ḥaḍramawt |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ḏt Ḥmym ḏt Kfs¹/Nʿmn |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Frantsouzoff 2007: 126-127, pl. 59a-f | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2007. Raybūn. Kafas Naʿmān, temple de la déesse dhāt-Ḥimyam. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. Avec une contribution archéologique de Alexander V. Sedov and Jurij A. Vinogradov. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 6. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente] |