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  • Editor(s)
    Irene Rossi
    CSAI Team
  • First published
    2013-10-01
  • Last revised
    2013-10-01
  • DOI
    10.82194/dasi-epi-2507
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al-Jawf 04.32


Arbach and Schiettecatte 2006: pl. 11/33

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Measure of letters7.5
Chronology
PeriodA
Textual typologyDedicatory text

TEXT

marker


   1  ʾbwṯn bnt Ys³qʾl ḏ-Ṣnʿ s³l—
   2  ʾt Nkrḥ ywm mlkt Nṭʿhtn((nṭʿhtn))

Apparatus
2it is not sure whether Nṭʿhtn is a name of place (Arbach and Schiettecatte 2006 and Arbach 2005) or of some other kind of property (Bron 2013).

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  ʾbwṯn daughter of Ys³qʾl ḏ-Ṣnʿ dedicated
   2  to Nkrḥ, when she came into possession of Nṭʿhtn (or, of the plantations).
2The translation "plantations" for nṭʿhtn is suggested by Bron on the basis of the comparison with the Heb. NṬʿ "to plant" (with the Minaic feminine plural ending -ht).
Bron 2013 a: 175-176Bron, François 2013. Notes d'épigraphie minéenne. Semitica, 53: 173-178. [Pages 173-174: Une stèle funéraire d'un roi de Maʿīn; pages 175-176: Al-Jawf 04.32; pages 176-178: Une mention méconnue de la ville de Gaza.]

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositṢanʿāʾ, The National Museum
Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 18, w. 72, th. 11.5
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteUnknown (wādī al-Jawf)
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areawādī al-Jawf
CountryYemen
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CULTURAL NOTES

This is one of the few Minaic inscriptions dedicated by a woman.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Arbach 2005 dArbach, Mounir 2005. Une reine en Arabie du Sud? Abîwathan fille de Yasaqʾîl, dáprès une inscription provenant de la région du Jawf. Chroniques Yéménites, 12: 19-26.
Arbach and Schiettecatte 2006: 44, pl. 11/33Arbach, Mounir and Schiettecatte, Jérémie 2006. Catalogue des pièces archéologiques et épigraphiques du Jawf au Musée National de Ṣanʿâʾ. Ṣanʿâʾ National Museum. Ṣanʿāʾ: Centre français d'archéologie et de sciences sociales de Ṣanʿâʾ. [Text in French and Arabic]
Bron 2013 a: 175-176Bron, François 2013. Notes d'épigraphie minéenne. Semitica, 53: 173-178. [Pages 173-174: Une stèle funéraire d'un roi de Maʿīn; pages 175-176: Al-Jawf 04.32; pages 176-178: Une mention méconnue de la ville de Gaza.]
Rossi 2022: 318, 486, fig. 59Rossi, 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.