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MṢM 3645


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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
Measure of letters5.5
Chronology
PeriodA
Textual typologyDedicatory text

TEXT

marker


   1  ʾlʿz Ydʿ mlk ʾ—
   2  hl Nbʿl bn ʿm—
   3  s²fq ḏ-Ḥdd mwd ʾ—
   4  ls¹mʿ w-Ḏmrkrb
   5  s³lʾ Nbʿl ns³(k)((Ns³(k))) |
   6  ywm ʿrb mṯʿy
   7  ʿṯtr ḏ-Rḥbh w-
   8  rḍw-s¹ fnwt
   9  b-rʿ(ẓ )(Nbʿl)[ w]-(ʾ)[.]—
  10  (ʾ)[... ...]

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  ʾlʿz Ydʿ lord (lit.: king) of the
   2  clan of Nbʿl, son of ʿm-
   3  s²fq of Ḥdd, friend of ʾ-
   4  ls¹mʿ and Ḏmrkrb,
   5  dedicated to Nbʿl the ns³k (or: Ns³k),
   6  when he offered libations
   7  to ʿṯtr ḏ-Rḥbh and
   8  satisfied Him openly,
   9  by the will of Nbʿl and ..
  10  . [... ...]

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositṢanʿāʾ, Military Museum, MṢM 3645
Support typeArtefact » Stela » Stela with framework
MaterialAlabaster
Dimensionsh. 83, w. 55, th. 7.5
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteKamna
Ancient siteKmnhw
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī Madhab
CountryYemen
NotesThe mention of Nbʿl as well as of the kings ʾls¹mʿ and Ḏmrkrb imposes an origin of this artefact from Kamna.
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CULTURAL NOTES

The royal couple of ʾls¹mʿ and Ḏmrkrb also appears in MṢM 148, a penitential text preserved in the stores of the Military Museum which, however, is chronologically much later (Frantsouzoff 2010).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Frantsouzoff 2010Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2010. Once more on the interpretation of mṯl in Epigraphic South Arabian (a new expiatory inscription on irrigation from Kamna). Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 40: 161-170.
Rossi 2022: 220-221, 476, fig. 38Rossi, 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.