HSM 1936.1.17
By kind permission of Harvard Semitic Museum
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 10.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary (conjectural) |
TEXT
1 [... ...]l Wd w-lhm ḥfs²[... ...]
2 [... ...](k)r Gbʾn (ḥdm) b[... ...]
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Cambridge MA, Harvard Semitic Museum, 1936.1.17 |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 23.5, w. 51, th. 8 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Huehnergard 2000: 200 (photo) | Huehnergard, John 2000. Old south Arabian inscriptions in the Harvard Semitic Museum. Pages 196-206 in Lawrence E. Stager, Joseph A. Greene and Michael D. Coogan (eds). The archaeology of Jordan and beyond. Essays in honor of James A. Sauer. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. |