Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Ethiopian Early Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Script cursus | Boustrophedon | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Deposit | Asmara |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 17, w. 43 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Barachit |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Debub |
Country | Eritrea |
Notes | It is more probable that the stone inscription comes from Feqya. See Drewes 1962: 7-8. |
Link to site record |
Franchini 1953: 16-17, fig. 10 | Franchini, Vincenzo 1953 [1954]. Ritrovamenti archeologici in Eritrea. (Notizie del dr. Vincenzo Franchini). Ed. by Lanfranco Ricci. Rassegna studi etiopici, 12: 5-28. |
Drewes 1962: 7-8 | Drewes, Abraham J. 1962. Inscriptions de l'Éthiopie antique. Leiden: E. J. Brill. |
Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: 156, pl. 60/83 | 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] |