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Haram 3 RES 2751A; M 15
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Left-to-right | ||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text | ||
| Royal inscription | Yes |
GENERAL NOTES
| Halévy notes that this text is written in ornate characters. In fact, the form of the letters as recorded by Halévy is comparable to that of the texts SW-BA/I/1-4 on the gate of the extra muros temple of as-Sawdāʾ, which are the most archaic inscriptions of the Jawf. We hypothesize that the author of the inscription was a king because in Haram 3 and 4 on the pillars of the gate he commemorates the foundation of the temple. |
TEXT
1 Yhrʾl s¹ḥdṯ Hdnn
| 1 | Yhrʾl was probably a king. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Yhrʾl founded Hdnn. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Architectural structure » Gate |
| Material | Stone |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Kharibat Hamdān |
| Ancient site | Hrm |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | In situ |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of Mtbnṭyn |
| Notes | When the inscriptions of the temple were recorded by Halévy, they were in situ. They disappeared after his visit. The temple was originally called Hdnn, then ʾrṯt. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Robin 1992 a: 67-68 | 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] |
| Rossi 2022: 253 | Rossi, 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. |