Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
Archaeologist suggested that the documentation from the necropolis could be dated to the first century BC. |
2 | we are not sure that Dṯyʾm was a name of group (see KH 313 also from Shukaʿ). |
English | |
1 Hrm, 2 of the family Dṯyʾm, 3 dedicated to Yʾs¹r. |
Deposit | Aden, The National Museum, NAM 2755 |
Support type | Artefact » Sculpture in the round » Part of human body |
Measures | h. 10, d. at the base 4 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Shukaʿ |
Ancient site | S²kʿm |
Geographical area | al-Ḍāliʿ |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple |
Link to site record |
CIAS: ii, 433-434, photo | Beeston, Alfred F.L., Pirenne, Jacqueline and Robin, Christian J. 1977-1986. Corpus des inscriptions et antiquités sud-arabes: Vol. I (1977): Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités; Vol. II (1986): Le Musée d’Aden. Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités. Louvain: Peeters. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres] |
Antonini 2001: 153-154, pl. 98 | Antonini, Sabina 2001. La statuaria sudarabica in pietra. Repertorio iconografico sudarabico. 1. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: IsIAO. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente] |