From the Jawf region of Yemen come the earliest Ancient South Arabian epigraphs, dating back since the 8th century BCE. Expression of the five city-states of Nashshān, Kamna, Haram, Maʿīn and Inabbaʾ, and of their fluctuating relations with Sabaʾ, they attest to a well-defined writing and artistic tradition which characterized this region until the expansion of the kingdom of Maʿīn...