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

By kind permission of University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

By kind permission of University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

By kind permission of University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
By kind permission of University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
By kind permission of University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
By kind permission of University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
CIAS: i, 357

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

Language	Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic
Alphabet	Ancient South Arabian
Script typology	Monumental writing
Writing technique	Incision
Measure of letters	1.7

TEXT

Apparatus

1	it is not sure that Kr is a proper name.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Deposit	Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Near East Section, Quill Jones Collection, 30-47-2
Support type	Artefact » Sculpture in the round » Human figure
Material	Alabaster
Measures	h. 35.5, 3.5 (base), w. 11.5, th. 7.5
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin. Conjectural

Modern site	Ḥayd Ibn ʿAqīl
Ancient site	Unknown
Geographical area	Wādī Bayḥān
Country	Yemen
Archaeological context	Funerary context
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ryckmans, Gonzague 1935: 171, pl. II	Ryckmans, Gonzague 1935. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Troisième série. Le Muséon, 48: 1-187.
CIAS: i, 355-357, photo	Beeston, Alfred F.L., Pirenne, Jacqueline and Robin, Christian J. 1977-1986. Corpus des inscriptions et antiquités sud-arabes: Vol. I (1977): Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités; Vol. II (1986): Le Musée d’Aden. Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités. Louvain: Peeters. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres]
Antonini 2001: 82-83, pl. 33	Antonini, Sabina 2001. La statuaria sudarabica in pietra. Repertorio iconografico sudarabico. 1. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: IsIAO. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente]