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Haram 58


Arbach 2022: 86, fig. 27
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodA
Royal inscriptionYes

TEXT

marker


   1  [ʾ]lmhll Wqh

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositṢanʿāʾ, General Organization for Antiquities and Museums
Support typeArtefact » Throne
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteKharibat Hamdān
Ancient siteHrm
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī Madhab
CountryYemen
NotesThe throne was issued from illegal excavations at the ancient site of Haram (Arbach, Rossi 2020: 22, n. 32).
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CULTURAL NOTES

The palaeographical features (triangular top of the h, w with internal cross) suggest this is one of the earliest inscriptions from Haram, dating at the latest to the mid-8th c. BCE (Rossi 2022: 286).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Robin 2012 a: 62Robin, Christian J. 2012. Matériaux pour une typologie des divinités arabiques et de leurs représentations.. Pages 7-118 in Isabelle Sachet (ed.). Dieux et déesses d'Arabie. Images et représentations. Actes de la table ronde tenue au Collège de France (Paris) les 1er et 2 octobre 2007. Paris: De Boccard. [en collaboration avec Christian Julien Robin]
Antonini de Maigret 2012: 48, 72, fig. 45Antonini de Maigret, Sabina 2012. South Arabian art. Art history in pre-Islamic Yemen. (Orient & Méditerranée, 10). Paris: De Boccard.
Arbach and Rossi 2020: 22, n. 32, 23, fig. 3Arbach, Mounir and Rossi, Irene 2020. Haram, cité antique du Jawf (Yémen): quelques bribes de dix siècles d'histoire et nouveaux textes amīrites. Semitica et Classica, 13: 19-47. 2024/01/13; https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/J.SEC.5.122979.
Arbach 2022: 86, fig. 27Arbach, Mounir 2022. The city-states of the Jawf at the dawn of Ancient South Arabian history (8th-6th centuries BCE). I. From cities to kingdoms. (Arabia Antica, 17/1). Roma: «L'Erma» di Bretschneider. 2025/12/29; https://doi.org/10.48255/9788891322920.
Rossi 2022: 286Rossi, 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.