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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Undefined Sabaic |
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian |
| Script typology | Minuscule writing |
| Writing technique | Incision |
| Measure of letters | about 0.5 |
GENERAL NOTES
| The text is written in minuscule script. Palaeographically its style belongs to a quite archaic phase (possibly Ry II). | |
TEXT
1 Bʿṯtr
2 bn ʿmbʾ—
3 l((ʿs¹bʾl)) Hdrn Bns¹
| Apparatus |
| on the left end of the stick: ḏ ʾ | | 2-3 | bn ʿs¹bʾl (Bāsalāma). | | 3 | ḫdrn Gnt, translated as "tomb of the Paradise" (Bāsalāma). |
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OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, University Museum, A-40-444 |
| Support type | Stick |
| Material | Wood |
| Measures | h. 1.5, w. 6.5, th. 1 |
| Link to object record | |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
Origin| Modern site | Shibām al-Ghirās / Shibām Sukhaym |
| Ancient site | S²bmm |
| Geographical area | Banī Ḥushaysh |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Bāsalāmah 1990: 162, 153 (fig. 58) | Bāsalāmah, Mohammed ʿAbdallah 1990. Šibām al-Ġirās. Sanaʿāʾ: Muʾassasa al-ʿAfīf al-Ṯaqāfiyya.
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