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MṢM 4520
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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 | 5.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text (conjectural) |
TEXT
1 [... ... ](ʾ)hl Ḥḍr (m)[... ...]
2 [... ... s³lʾ] Mdhww ṯny [... ...]
3 [... ... f](n)wt w-(mlk) (B)[... ...]
| 3 | rḍw-s¹ f]nwt is a likely integration; an expression such w-mlk Bʿṯtr is found in Kamna 20, 7. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, Military Museum, MṢM 4520 |
| Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with framework |
| Material | Alabaster |
| Dimensions | h. 24, w. 34.5, th. 8 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Kamna |
| Ancient site | Kmnhw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Prioletta 2014 a: 198-200, fig.6 | Prioletta, Alessia 2014. Nouvelles inscriptions maʿīniques de Kamna au Musée militaire de Ṣanʿāʿ. Semitica et Classica, 7: 191-201. |
| Rossi 2022: 247-248, 480, fig. 47 | 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. |