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Haram 25 CIH 890; RES 2752; M 6


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision

GENERAL NOTES

Halévy's copy. According to Beeston's interpretation, this is a funerary text.

TEXT

marker


   1  wntyn qr
   2  bnt ḍs¹nt
   3  blyt fṣyt

Apparatus
1Halévy's copy is ...wnyt. Beeston, on the basis of Hartmann, emendates [M]ʿnyt.
1-2Beeston, on the basis of Conti Rossini, considers qrbnt a single word (meaning "offering").
2Beeston emendates (ḏ)-S¹nt.
1-3Beeston's translation of the whole text is: "[X. daughter of Y.], woman of Maʿīn, hierodule of (the temple) ḏ-S¹nt, was buried and interred".

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteKharibat Hamdān
Ancient siteHrm
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī Madhab
CountryYemen
NotesThe inscription was found by Halévy in al-Firʿ.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Robin 1992 a: 93Robin, 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]
Hartmann 1909: 380Hartmann, Martin 1909. Die arabisch-islamischen Handschriften der Universitäts-Bibliothek zu Leipzig und der Sammlungen Hartmann und Haupt. Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete, 23: 235-266. 2023/12/12; https://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/dmg/periodical/titleinfo/118129.
Conti Rossini 1931: 234Conti Rossini, Carlo (=Karolus) 1931. Chrestomathia Arabica Meridionalis Epigraphica. Rome: Istituto per l'Oriente.
Beeston 1950 a: 54-55Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1950. Notes on Old South Arabian Lexicography I. Le Muséon, 63: 53-57.