Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Ethiopian Early Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
English | |
1 Ḥdws¹n dedicated for (?) 2 his life the incense burner. |
Schneider 1972: 102-103 | Schneider, Roger 1972. Documents épigraphiques de l'Éthiopie — IV. Annales d'Ethiopie, 9: 102-113. |
Support type | Artefact » Incense burner (mqṭr) |
Shape | With truncated pyramidal base |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 40.5 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Yeha |
Ancient site | Yḥʾ |
Geographical area | Tigray |
Country | Ethiopia |
Link to site record |
Schneider 1972: 102-105, figs 1-2 | Schneider, Roger 1972. Documents épigraphiques de l'Éthiopie — IV. Annales d'Ethiopie, 9: 102-113. |
Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: 113, pl. 30 | Bernand, Etienne, Drewes, Abraham J. and Schneider, Roger 1991. Recueil des inscriptions de l'Éthiopie des périodes pré-axoumite et axoumite. Introduction de Francis Anfray. Paris: de Boccard. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres] |