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Kamna 33
By kind permission of Ch. Robin and J. Schiettecatte
By kind permission of Ch. Robin and J. Schiettecatte
By kind permission of Ch. Robin and J. Schiettecatte
By kind permission of Ch. Robin and J. Schiettecatte
By kind permission of Ch. Robin and J. Schiettecatte
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| The language is Sabaic (see the dedicatory verb "hqny" and the personal pronoun -hmy) but the Minaic formula "krb s¹brr" is used. |
TEXT
1 Ḥyw←m w-Mrdm bn R←ʾbm ḏ-Qrnm h←qny ʾlmqh|
2 mly←t-hmy krb s¹b←rr ywm ks³ḥ ←Ns²n
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Ḥywm and Mrdm, sons of Rʾbm of Qrnm, dedicated to ʾlmqh 2 their booty, obligation from which He released (them), when they routed Ns²n (or, Ns²n was routed). |
| Arbach and Rossi 2015: 23 - 24 | Arbach, Mounir and Rossi, Irene 2015. Nouveaux documents sabéens provenant de Kamna du VIIIe–VIIe siècle avant J.-C.. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 26/1: 16-27. 2015/06/02; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aae.12052/pdf. [DOI: 10.1111/aae.12052] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Offering table » With bull head as gutter |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Kamna |
| Ancient site | Kmnhw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Notes | Kamna is the most probable place of the object. See the argumentation in Arbach and Rossi 2015: 24-25. |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
The authors of the text celebrate the routing of Nashshān. This episode (and the verb employed "ks³ḥ") calls to mind the defeat of Nashshān by Krbʾl Wtr, supported also by the king of Kamna. However, the palaeography is earlier than that attested on the inscriptions from the Jawf contemporary to Krbʾl Wtr. We cannot exclude that the episode refers back to a previous attack on Nashshān.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach and Rossi 2015: 23-25, figs 6-9 | Arbach, Mounir and Rossi, Irene 2015. Nouveaux documents sabéens provenant de Kamna du VIIIe–VIIe siècle avant J.-C.. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 26/1: 16-27. 2015/06/02; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aae.12052/pdf. [DOI: 10.1111/aae.12052] |
| Rossi 2022: 214-215, 474, fig. 36 | 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. |