CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


Calvet and Robin 1997: 114, cat. 25

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision

GENERAL NOTES

Wrongly this statuette has been identified with RES 3896 N° 14 (Kitchen 1994 a: 170-171).

TEXT


   1  ʿmʿly ḏ-Ḏrḥʾl

Apparatus
1Ḏrḥʾl is attested as a name of person; here it could be a patronymic.

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositParis, Louvre Museum, AO 20282
Support typeArtefact » Sculpture in the round » Human figure
MaterialAlabaster
Measuresh. 45.5, w. 13.3, th. 10.3
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteḤayd Ibn ʿAqīl
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaWādī Bayḥān
CountryYemen
Archaeological contextFunerary context: Necropolis
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Calvet and Robin 1997: 114-115, photoCalvet, Yves and Robin, Christian J. 1997. Arabie heureuse. Arabie déserte. Les antiquités arabiques du Musée du Louvre. Avec la collaboration de Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet and Marielle Pic. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux.
Antonini 2001: 85, pl. 36Antonini, 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]
Kitchen 1994 aKitchen, Kenneth A. 1994. The Lady Diʿamat and friends from Wadi Beihan, S. Arabia. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 5/3: 169-173.