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YM 30135


Arbach and Audouin 2007: 60

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Measure of letters6
Chronology
PeriodA
Textual typologyDedicatory text - fragmentary

TEXT

marker


   1  [Lḥ]y(ʿṯt)( bn )[... ...]
   2  [ʿ]mḏḫr ḏ-Ḫbzn ↯s³lʾ ʿ[ṯt—
   3  r] Mtbqbḍ y↯wm qyn m(r)—
   4  ʾ-s¹ ḏ-Ḥr↯(b) b-ʾlʾlt Mʿ(n)
   5  w-b ʿṯtr Nkrḥ w-b ḏt-Ḥ—
   6  mym w-b ʿmḏḫr b-ywm W—
   7  qhʾl w-Nbṭkrb

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Lḥyʿṯt son of [... ...]
   2  ʿmḏḫr ḏ-Ḫbzn dedicated to ʿṯtr
   3  Mtbqbḍ when he was qyn of his lord,
   4  the one of Ḥrb; by the gods of Maʿīn
   5  and by ʿṯtr Nkrḥ and by ḏt-Ḥmym
   6  and by ʿmḏḫr, at the time of
   7  Wqhʾl and Nbṭkrb.

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositṢanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 30135
Support typeArtefact » Stela » Stela with framework
MaterialAlabaster
Dimensionsh. 87, w. 95, th. 6
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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 24942+YM 24943).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Arbach and Audouin 2007: 60-61, cat. 34Arbach, 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: 322-324, 487, fig. 60Rossi, 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.