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Haram 57 Cox 1
Robin 2005-2006: fig.173
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 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| On the rectangular base below the frieze, on the right, there is trace of some letters, probably not original: from the left, Robin reads a ʾ and a ḏ. |
TEXT
1 Ṣdq bn Ḥmyt s³lʾ ʿṯtr Bʾ→s¹n b-ywm Wtrʾl
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Ṣdq son of Ḥmyt dedicated to ʿṯtr Bʾs¹n, at the time of Wtrʾl. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Altar |
| Shape | Squared |
| Material | Marble |
| Dimensions | h. 9, w. 49, th. 68.5 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Kharibat Hamdān |
| Ancient site | Hrm |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Robin 2005-2006: 281-282, fig. 173 | Robin, Christian J. 2005-2006. Documents épigraphiques de diverses origines. Arabia. Revue de Sabéologie, 3: 281-287. |
| Rossi 2022: 278 | 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. |