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YM 28975
Arbach and Audouin 2007: 40-41, figs A-D
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 | ||
| Measure of letters | 9 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
1 Bydʾl bn ʿms²←fq ḏ-Ṣdq s³lʾ ʿṯtr← Bʾs¹n ʾlʿz krb s¹b←rrt b-ywm Wtrʾl |
| 1 | It is not clear whether ʾlʿz is the name of a dedicated person or of the offering table. Note the ṣ with the left double trait. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Bydʾl son of ʿms²fq ḏ-Ṣdq dedicated ʾlʿz to ʿṯtr Bʾs¹n, as obligation from which She released him, at the time of Wtrʾl. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 28975 |
| Support type | Artefact » Offering table » With bull head as gutter |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | total h. 96; table: h. 16.5, w. 40.5, th. 40.5 |
| 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
| Arbach and Audouin 2007: 40-41, cat. 22 | Arbach, 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] |
| Bron 2010 b: 42-43 | Bron, François 2010. Quelques nouvelles inscriptions du Jawf. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 21: 41-45. |
| Rossi 2022: 278-279, 482, fig. 50 | 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. |