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Language Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic Alphabet Ancient South Arabian Script typology Monumental writing Script cursus Boustrophedon Writing technique Incision Measure of letters 6.6 Chronology Textual typology Dedicatory text - fragmentary
The text has been edited by Jamme in 1971. In that moment the stela was in the Museum of Aden (AM 866).
1 [... ... ](M)lḥm bn 2 Mwʾm ʿbd[... ...] 3 [... ...]-hmy S³nḥ | 4 b-ʿṯtr w-b [... ...]
Apparatus 1 Mlḥm could be incomplete: [... ...]mlḥm. 2 it is not sure whether Mwʾm is a patronymic or a name of group. 3 Jamme 1972: 120 integrates by](t)-hmy. In this case S³nḥ is a name of building, but the integration is not sure. S³nḥ could also be an epithet of a god.
Deposit London, The British Museum, BM 141535=1985,0223.4 Support type Artefact » Stela » Stela with framework Material Alabaster Measures h. 38, w. 44.5, th. 8 Link to object record
Origin. Conjectural Modern site Maʾrib Ancient site Mryb / Mrb Geographical area Maʾrib Country Yemen Archaeological context Religious context Link to site record
Doe 1971 : 35, pl. 7Doe, D. Brian 1971. Southern Arabia . London: Thames and Hudson. Jamme 1971 b : 120Jamme, 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]