CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

DASI

Y.04.B.T45.4


Agostini 2021 b: 228, fig. 10
By kind permission of Missione Archeologica Italiana nella Repubblica dello Yemen (©MAIRY)

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodB

GENERAL NOTES

Agostini remarks that similarities in support and palaeography suggest that Y.04.B.T45.3 and Y.04.B.T45.4 are fragments of the same inscription, though it is impossible to propose a collation of the two texts. He hypothetically dates the text to the 5th-4th c. BCE.

TEXT


   1  [... ... ]qhlt ʿṯtr [... ...]
   2  [... ...](h)[... ...]

Apparatus
2Agostini: [... ...]ṯh [....]ʿ[... ...]. The first readable letter, for the position of its circular element, is most probably ʿ or q; the last one could be y or ṯ.

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositBarāqish, Museum, Storeroom
Support typeInscription on architectural structure » Walls
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteBarāqish
Ancient siteYṯl
Geographical areaSouthern Jawf
CountryYemen
Archaeological contextUrban context: City walls
NotesThis inscribed stone block was found extra-muros in the collapses of the Minaean city-walls, in front of T45.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Agostini 2021 b: 228, fig. 10Agostini, Alessio 2021. Lo scavo fuori mura un R44/45 a Barāqish. Le iscrizioni. Pages 224-228 in Sabina Antonini and Francesco G. Fedele (eds). Barāqish/Yathill (Yemen) 1986-2007. Volume 1: Excavations of Temple B and related research and restoration / Scavi del Tempio B e ricerche e restauri connessi. Oxford: Archaeopress.