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YM 24942+YM 24943


Arbach and Audouin 2007: 68

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRaised
Execution techniqueCasting
Measure of letters3
Chronology
PeriodA
Textual typologyDedicatory text

GENERAL NOTES

The dating to period A is suggested by the presence of the divine epithet Mtbqbḍ.

TEXT

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   1  (W)ddʾl w-S¹ʿdʾl w-Zydʾl w-ʾlʾws¹ bhny Mtʿn ḏ-Mrn s³l—
   2  [ʾ] ʿṯtr Mtbqbḍ ʾl ʿwhn w-ʿ(w)hn ms¹lm w-mfḥmy ḏhbn

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Wddʾl and S¹ʿdʾl and Zydʾl and ʾlʾws¹ sons of Mtʿn ḏ-Mrn dedicated
   2  to ʿṯtr Mtbqbḍ, god of ʿwhn, and ʿwhn an altar and two incense burners in bronze.

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositṢanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 24942+YM 24943
Support typeArtefact » Offering table » With bull head as gutter (ms¹lm)
MaterialBronze
Dimensionsh. 13, w. 65, th. 29
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin. Conjectural
Modern siteMaʿīn
Ancient siteQrnw
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī Madhab
CountryYemen
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CULTURAL NOTES

This is one of the two attestations of the ancient name of god Mtbqbḍ used as an epithet of ʿṯtr (cf. YM 30135). ʿwhn is here a name of group and of god (maybe an eponymous ancestor? Cf. YM 24905).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Arbach and Audouin 2007: 68-69, cat. 41Arbach, 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]
Rossi 2022: 324-325, 487, fig. 61Rossi, 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.