MNAO 10322
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Undefined Ancient South Arabian language | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Script cursus | Boustrophedon | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 5.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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GENERAL NOTES
| Probably an Ancient Sabaic text. |
TEXT
[... ...]
1 [... ...](b) ḏ—
2 t Ḥ(m)[ym ... ...]
3 [... ...]
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Roma, Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”, MNAO 10322/11516 |
| Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with framework |
| Material | Alabaster |
| Measures | h. 19, w. 24, th. 8.2 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Garbini 1978 a: 33-34, pl. II | Garbini, Giovanni 1978. Sabaean Fragments. Raydān, 1: 33-35. |
| D'Amore and Ippolito 2012: 259, cat. 109 | D'Amore, Paola and Ippolito, Vincenzo 2012. Catalogo. Stele e rilievi. Pages 259-266 in Sabina Antonini, Paola D'Amore and Michael Jung (eds). Il trono della regina di Saba. Cultura e diplomazia fra Italia e Yemen. La Collezione Sudarabica del Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale. Rome: Artemide. |