RES 3234 CIH 924
By kind permission of British Museum
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Script cursus | Boustrophedon | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 4.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Commemorative text - fragmentary |
TEXT
1 [... ...](m mḫḍ kl wl)—
2 d ʿm w-<w>fr-hw w-[... ...]
3 [... ...]fḥm l-Yṯʿʾm—
4 r /5/[... ...]
| 1 | [Q](tbn) (RES). |
| 1-2 | perhaps we can integrated yw]m before mḫḍ "when all the sons of ʿm were broken and the territory was placed under cultivation". If this translation is correct, we must integrate a w in line 2. wfrhw "they escaped (?)" (RES). |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 125049=1881,1206E.3 |
| Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with framework |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 23, w. 28.4, th. 10 (left) 8 (right) |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
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