Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic |
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian |
Script typology | Monumental writing |
Writing technique | Incision |
Measure of letters | 2.8 |
Agostini dates the inscription to the end of the 2nd century BC, on the basis of the palaeographical analysis. |
2 | The only other South Arabian occurrences of the name S²yd are in Shaqab 4 and 5, as a group name. |
Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with figure in relief |
Subject | Human face |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 40, w. 19-20, th. 5 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Barāqish |
Ancient site | Yṯl |
Geographical area | Southern Jawf |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Archaeological context | Funerary context: Necropolis |
Notes | The stela was found during the excavations in the necropolis in area D. |
Link to site record |
Antonini and Agostini 2010: 20, 57, pl. 28/d | Antonini, Sabina and Agostini, Alessio 2010. A Minaean necropolis at Barāqish (Jawf, Republic of Yemen). Preliminary report of the 2005-2006 archaeological campaigns. With an appendix by Paola Pagano. (Reports and Memoirs. New series, 9). Rome: IsIAO. |