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CIH 678
Robin 1992 a: 49
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 |
| Textual typology | Expiation text |
GENERAL NOTES
| Pirenne classified this inscription in her graphic style A3. As the other penitential texts dedicated to Nkrḥ, it can probably be later and come from the temple of Nkrḥ in Baraqish or from his sanctuary of Darb aṣ-Ṣabī. |
TEXT
1 Wfd bn ʿb(d)[... ...]
2 [..](w) ntḫy [... ...]
3 [... ... k-N](krḥ)[ ... ...]
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Wd son of ʿbd[... ...] 2 [... ...] confessed [... ...] 3 [... ... to ]Nkrḥ[... ...] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Istanbul, Ancient Orient Museum, 7487 |
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 16, w. 25 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown (wādī al-Jawf) |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | wādī al-Jawf |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of Nkrḥ |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
This fragmentary text was considered the proof of the ancientness of the penitential practice in South Arabia, because it was dated to Pirenne's style A3. We now know more ancient inscriptions of this textual category.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Robin 1992 a: 49 | 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] |