YM 16658
Antonini de Maigret 2014: 237, fig. 3a
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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GENERAL NOTES
| The belonging of the text to the Central Middle Sabaic is hypothetical. |
TEXT
1 S²ms¹m ʿlyt
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum, 16658 |
| Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with figure in relief |
| Subject | Mythological figure |
| Material | Alabaster |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Country | Yemen |
| Notes | The provenance of the stela is unknown, the comparable stela MṢM 213 was found in Maʾrib. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Robin 2012 a: 75, fig. 9 | Robin, Christian J. 2012. Matériaux pour une typologie des divinités arabiques et de leurs représentations.. Pages 7-118 in Isabelle Sachet (ed.). Dieux et déesses d'Arabie. Images et représentations. Actes de la table ronde tenue au Collège de France (Paris) les 1er et 2 octobre 2007. Paris: De Boccard. [en collaboration avec Christian Julien Robin] |
| Antonini de Maigret 2014: 237, fig. 3/a | Antonini de Maigret, Sabina 2014. A winged deity in southern Arabia. Pages 234-243 in Alexander V. Sedov (ed.). Arabian and Islamic studies. A collection of papers in honour of Mikhail Borishovich Piotrovskij on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Moskow. |