DASI: Digital Archive for the Study of pre-islamic arabian Inscriptions: Epigraph details

By kind permission of British Museum

By kind permission of British Museum

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

Language	Ancient South Arabian » Undefined Ancient South Arabian language
Alphabet	Ancient South Arabian
Script typology	Monumental writing
Writing technique	Incision
Measure of letters	0.43

GENERAL NOTES

Considered to be in Thamudic (Winnett 1937: 52) or to come from Ethiopia (Ryckmans 1955: 4).

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OBJECT INFORMATION

Deposit	London, The British Museum, BM 119394=1919,0709.7
Support type	Artefact » Seal » Stamp seal
Material	Semiprecious stone
Measures	h. 0.43, l. 1.5 (face), 1.7 (reverse), w. 1.53 (face), 1.52 (reverse); wt. 2g
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin

Modern site	Unknown
Ancient site	Unknown
Geographical area	Unknown
Country	Unknown
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ryckmans, Jacques 1955: 4, no. 16	Ryckmans, Jacques 1955. L’origine et l’ordre des lettres de l’alphabet éthiopien. Bibliotheca Orientalis, 12/1: 2-8.
Jamme 1971 b: 53, pl. 3	Jamme, Albert W.F. 1971. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe II. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A206497#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed]
Pickworth Wong 1999: 221, no. 35	Pickworth Wong, Diana 1999. Stamp seals of the ancient Yemen. (PhD, University of California, Berkeley).
Winnett 1937	Winnett, Fred V. 1937. A study of the Lihyanite and Thamudic inscriptions. (University of Toronto Studies: Oriental series, 3). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.