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al-Jawf 04.48
Arbach and Schiettecatte 2006: pl. 16/52
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 | 4.2 |
| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| Uncertain chronology, possibly period A. The verb of dedication is rṯd. There is no photo of the third face, of which Arbach gives a hypothetic reading. |
TEXT
1 Wṯnt →rṯdt mṣrb ʾl→ʿz ʿtd [.]ṣlm
| 1 | the letter m is dextrograde. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Wṯnt dedicated the offering table that ʾlʿz [... ...] |
| Possibly, ʿtb "to furnish", [.]ṣlm "statue". |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum |
| Support type | Artefact » Offering table » With bull head as gutter (mṣrb) |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 8, w. 31.5, th. 26 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
This is one of the few Minaic inscriptions dedicated by a woman.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach and Schiettecatte 2006: 62, pl. 16/52 | Arbach, 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] |