Ja 469
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 1.6 | ||
| Chronology |
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TEXT
1 ṣwr Mnʿ[... ...]
| Jamme notes that the two vertical traits at the beginning of the text are part of its rectangular frame. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Roma, Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”, inv. 13022/16034 |
| Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with scene (ṣwr) |
| Material | Alabaster |
| Measures | h. 8.8, w. 8, th. 4.5 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Jamme 1956 a: 83-84, pl. XI/469 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1956. Les antiquités sud-arabes du Museo Nazionale Romano. Monumenti antichi, 43: 1-120. |
| D'Amore and Ippolito 2012: 259, cat. 111 | 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. |