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

Cleveland 1965: 15, pl. 35-36; Image free from copyright

Cleveland 1965: 15, pl. 35-36
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

Language	Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic
Alphabet	Ancient South Arabian
Script typology	Monumental writing
Writing technique	Incision

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OBJECT INFORMATION

Support type	Artefact » Sculpture in the round » Human figure
Material	Alabaster
Measures	h. 21.5, w. 11, th. 5.7
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin

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

Cleveland 1965: 15, pl. 35-36	Cleveland, Ray L. 1965. An Ancient South Arabian Necropolis. Objects from the Second Campaign (1951) in Timnaʿ Cemetery. (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, 4). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
Antonini 2001: 79, pl. 30	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]