Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Ethiopian Early Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient North Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Script cursus | Boustrophedon | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 3 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
Deposit | Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 3983 |
Support type | Artefact » Altar |
Shape | Squared |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 13, w. 8, th. 15 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Matara |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Senafe |
Country | Eritrea |
Found | Reemployed |
Notes | The altar was found during the archaeological campaign in 1968. It was reemployed in a wall. |
Link to site record |
Drewes and Schneider 1972: 87-89, fig. 1 | Drewes, Abraham J. and Schneider, Roger 1972. Documents épigraphiques de l'Éthiopie — III. Annales d'Ethiopie, 9: 87-102. |
Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: 138-139, pl. 45/57 | Bernand, Etienne, Drewes, Abraham J. and Schneider, Roger 1991. Recueil des inscriptions de l'Éthiopie des périodes pré-axoumite et axoumite. Introduction de Francis Anfray. Paris: de Boccard. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres] |