YM 26560
Arbach, Schiettecatte and al-Hādī 2008: 41, cat. 13
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic |
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian |
| Script typology | Monumental writing |
| Writing technique | Incision |
| Measure of letters | 3 |
GENERAL NOTES
| According to Arbach, Schiettecatte and al-Hādī 2008 this inscription dates back to the 6th-5th century BC. |
TEXT
1 Kwf
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 26560 |
| Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with eyes or stylized face |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 19, w. 10, th. 3 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Archaeological context | Funerary context |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach, Schiettecatte and al-Hādī 2008: 41, cat. 13 | Arbach, Mounir, Schiettecatte, Jérémie and al-Hādī, Ibrāhīm 2008. Collection of Funerary Stelae from the Jawf Valley. Ṣanʿâʾ National Museum. 3. Ṣanʿāʾ: UNESCO-SFD / Ṣanʿāʾ: National Museum. [Text in English and Arabic] |
| Rossi 2022: 399 | Rossi, Irene 2022. The city-states of the Jawf at the dawn of Ancient South Arabian history (8th-6th centuries BCE). II. Corpus of the inscriptions. (Arabia Antica, 17/2). Roma: «L'Erma» di Bretschneider. |