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  • Editor(s)
    Irene Rossi
    CSAI Team
  • First published
    2013-10-01
  • Last revised
    2015-06-02
  • DOI
    10.82194/dasi-epi-2487
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al-Ḥarāshif 3


Robin 1992 a: pl. LIX/b

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Measure of letters8.5
Chronology
PeriodA
Textual typologyConstruction text

GENERAL NOTES

Archaic graphic style: letters ḥ and ṣ.

TEXT

marker


   1  | Ṣbḥn bn Ṣdqs¹mʿ w-T(ḥt)—
   2  (y) rṭf b-ywm ʿmyṯʿ
   3  (| w)-ʿms²fq w-k(b)r Tḥty

Apparatus
1-2Robin hypothetically suggests that Tḥty (here and at l. 3) or Ḥmrw (al-Ḥarāshif 2) could be the ancient name of the site (Robin 1992 a: 198). According to Jamme, instead, bn introduces two names of group (1996: 84).

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Ṣbḥn son of Ṣdqs¹mʿ and Tḥty
   2  erected this portico (?), at the time of ʿmyṯʿ
   3  and ʿms²fq and (when) he was kbr of Tḥty.
2rṣf: Robin suggests that this a dialectal or graphic variant of rṣf. Jamme, instead, compares to Ar. raṣafa “to pave” (Jamme 1996: 84).
Jamme 1996: 84Jamme, Albert W.F. 1996. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XIX. Washington. 2025/04/17; https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.38250296. [Privately printed]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 33, w. 100
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteal-Ḥarāshif
Ancient siteḤmrw (?) / Tḥty (?)
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī Madhab
CountryYemen
FoundReemployed. In modern times
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Robin 1992 a: 200-201, pl. 59/bRobin, 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]
Jamme 1996: 84Jamme, Albert W.F. 1996. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XIX. Washington. 2025/04/17; https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.38250296. [Privately printed]
Rossi 2022: 93-94, 456, fig. 3Rossi, 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.