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Kamna 10


Robin 1992 a: pl. 53

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodA
Textual typologyDedicatory text

TEXT

marker


   1  [... ... b]↯(n) ʾlkrb
   2  [..](r)[. s²]↯wʿ ↯(ʿṯ)tr ↯(ḏ)-
   3  [R]↯ḥbh q↯yn ↯(ʿmk)↯(rb)
   4  [w-]↯(B)↯ʿṯtr ʾb ʾly(ṯ)—
   5  ↯[ʿ w-]↯ʾlkbr s³lʾ M—
   6  ↯[dhww]↯ (ʾ)lyṯʿ mwṯ—
   7  ↯[b s²wʿn]↯ (k)rb s¹↯br—
   8  ↯[r y]↯(w)m ḏbḥ M↯dhww
   9  ↯[... ...]

Apparatus
6We are quite sure that the object of the dedication is an individual - the son of the author - because his name is mentioned in l.4. The restoration at the end of the line is sure, on the basis of the comparison with Kamna 24 and Kamna 25.
9[... ... ʾly](ṯ)ʿ (Robin).

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  [... ...] son of ʾlkrb
   2  [... ...], priest of ʿṯtr ḏ-
   3  Rḥbh, qyn of ʿmkrb
   4  and of Bʿṯtr, father of ʾlyṯʿ
   5  and ʾlkrb, dedicated to
   6  Mdhww ʾlyṯʿ, vicary (?) of the priest,
   7  as obligation from which He released him,
   8  when he made a sacrifice to Mdhww
   9  [... ...]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeArtefact » Stela » Stela with framework
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteḤizmat an-Naṣāʾib
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaal-Jawf
CountryYemen
NotesThe inscription was found at Ḥizmat an-Naṣāʾib, east of Kamna, during the MAFRAY survey.
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Origin
Modern siteKamna
Ancient siteKmnhw
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī Madhab
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Robin 1992 a: 181-182, pl. 53Robin, 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: 205-206Rossi, 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.