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YM 19608


Arbach and Audouin 2007: 96

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Measure of letters5
Chronology
PeriodA. Conjectural

GENERAL NOTES

The chronology of this text is hypothetical, due to the bad state of preservation of the object. However, it seems palaeographically quite ancient.

TEXT

marker


   1  [... ...]ḥmy [... ...] m[.]ṣw (ʿ)s¹y rb[.]
   2  [... ...](w)-(ṣ)dq (ʿ)s¹(y)-s¹ (b)-(ywm )(Ḏ)mrkrb w-b
   3  (Ys²hrml)[k]

Apparatus
1-2ʿs¹y Rbṣdq.

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositṢanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 19608
Support typeArchitectural structure » Lintel
MaterialWood
Dimensionsh. 34, w. 86, th. 9
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin. Conjectural
Modern siteas-Sawdāʾ
Ancient siteNs²n
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī al-Buhayra
CountryYemen
NotesThe place of origin is hypothetical and is suggested on the basis of the attestation of the royal name Ys²hrmlk in the text Moussaïeff 22.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Arbach and Audouin 2007: 96, cat. 63Arbach, Mounir and Audouin, Rémy 2007. Collection of Epigraphic and Archaeological Artifacts from al-Jawf Sites. Ṣanʿâʾ National Museum. 2. Ṣanʿāʾ: UNESCO-SFD / Ṣanʿāʾ: National Museum. [Text in English and Arabic]
Arbach and Rossi 2011: 176, fig. 18Arbach, Mounir and Rossi, Irene 2011. Réflexions sur l'histoire de la cité-État de Nashshân (fin du IXe - fin du VIIe s. av. J.-C.). Egitto e vicino Oriente, 34: 149-176.
Rossi 2022: 388-389, 496, fig. 77Rossi, 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.