Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Cast | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
1 | Lundin and Frantsouzoff read the verb: [ṣ](yd) "led a sacred hunt", but the third letter couldn't be a d, as ]yn is clearly legible. We integrated: q]yn. |
English | |
1 [... ...]ʾl son of ʿmʾns¹, priest of Rhmw, dedicated to Rhmw Lḥyʿṯt and Ṣbḥhmw, when he was the qyn of ʿṯtr ḏ-Ms¹wʿtm. By ʿṯtr. |
Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 135323+BM 135324=1970,0604.1-2 |
Support type | Artefact » Altar |
Shape | Squared |
Material | Bronze |
Measures | h. 66, w. 110, th. 34.5 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Unknown |
Country | Unknown |
Notes | Mārib as the place of origin for the altar is purely hypothetical and only suggested by the splendour of the bronze altar. |
Link to site record |
Lundin and Frantsouzoff 1997: 384-391 | Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. and Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 1997. An Inscribed Sabean Bronze Altar from the British Museum. St. Petersburg Journal of Oriental Studies, 9: 384-391. |
Simpson 2002: 169, cat. 213 | Simpson, St John (ed.) 2002. Queen of Sheba. Treasures from the ancient Yemen. London: British Museum Press. [Catalogue of an exhibition held at the British Museum, London] |
Jändl 2009: 49-50, 146 | Jändl, Barbara 2009. Altsüdarabische Inschriften auf Metall. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 4). Tübingen: Wasmuth / Berlin: Wasmuth. |