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Kamna 21 RES 3252; M 285
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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GENERAL NOTES
| L.1 is inscribed on the edge of the table's top; ll. 2 and 3 on the front face. |
TEXT
1 [... ...](ʿ)ly w-kbr n[s³r ... ...]
2 [... ...]Mdhww w-Qbḍ [... ...]
3 [... ... ]ʿmyṯʿ
| 3 | ʿmyṯʿ could be a royal name (cf. Kamna 10, 23, al-Ḥarāshif 3 and as-Sawdāʾ 90). |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Paris, Louvre Museum, AO 4977 |
| Support type | Artefact » Offering table » With bull head as gutter |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 33, th. 26 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Kamna |
| Ancient site | Kmnhw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Pirenne 1956: 277, pl. X | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1956. Paléographie des inscriptions sud-arabes. Contribution à la chronologie et à l'histoire de l'Arabie du sud antique. (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België. Klasse der letteren, 26). Brussels: Paleis der Academiën. |
| Calvet and Robin 1980: fig. 9 | Calvet, Yves and Robin, Christian J. (eds) 1980. Au royaume de Saba. Archéologie du Yémen. [Catalogue d'exposition] Musee d'art et d'essai, Paris, à partir du 24 avril 1980. (Cahiers Musée d'art et d'essai, 4). Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux. |
| Robin 1992 a: 193, pl. 56/a-b | 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] |
| Calvet and Robin 1997: 97-98, cat. 8 | Calvet, Yves and Robin, Christian J. 1997. Arabie heureuse. Arabie déserte. Les antiquités arabiques du Musée du Louvre. Avec la collaboration de Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet and Marielle Pic. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux. |
| Rossi 2022: 240-241 | 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. |