Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Ethiopian Early Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Script cursus | Boustrophedon | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 4.5 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary (conjectural) |
1 | The name Fqmm can be reconstructed according RIÉ 29, RIÉ 30 and RIÉ 39. |
Deposit | Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 241 |
Support type | Artefact » Altar |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 14.5, w. 17 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Gobochela |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Aksum |
Country | Ethiopia |
Found | In situ |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh |
Link to site record |
Drewes 1959: 97-98 | Drewes, Abraham J. 1959. Les inscriptions de Melazo. Annales d'Ethiopie, 3: 83-99. |
Leclant 1959: 47, 71, pl. XXXIV/a-b | Leclant, Jean 1959. Haoulti-Melazo (1955-1956). Annales d'Ethiopie, 3: 43-82. |
Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: 96, pl. 19/22 | 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] |