The pre-Islamic South Arabian expiatory inscriptions (original) (raw)

Abstract

The paper presents a textual typology of the Ancient South Arabian epigraphic heritage: the expiatory inscriptions of the al-Jawf region. Through a revision of the history of studies on this texts, the paper analyses their peculiarities with respect to the dedicatory inscriptions of penitential subject coming from the Sabaean and Hadramitic cultural area. In particular, the paper focuses on the interpretation of the most ancient expiatory inscriptions by the king and the community of Ma'in, which can be dated to the VII cent. BC (Université Catholique de Louvain - Institut orientaliste de Louvain, Chaire Ryckmans d’études arabiques anciennes, 23-3-2015).

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