Kamna, une cité prospère du Jawf du Yémen du VIIIe au VIe siècle av. J.-C.

The city of Kamna was a one of five city-states of the Jawf region in Yemen which developed in the 8th-6th centuries BC. Several fortuitous epigraphic discoveries over the last few years have contributed widely to our knowledge of the history of this city. The authors propose a historical reconstruction of the city's most prosperous period, in the 8th century BC, followed by a period of mixed autonomy and allegiance to the Kingdom of Saba', in the 7th-6th centuries BC. This latter period would seem, in light of the documentation, to continue into the second half of the first millennium BC. The city's social and religious institutions are also studied. Two new inscriptions from the 8th century BC are published in an appendix (Kamna 28 and Kamna 29).