Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Ethiopian Early Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 4.3 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
1 | This reconstruction is proposed by Drewes (Drewes 1959: 90-91). |
English | |
1 [...] of the family Fqmm, dedicated to ʾlmqh. |
Deposit | Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 101 |
Support type | Artefact » Altar |
Shape | Squared |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 35, w. 37.5, th. 19 |
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: 90-91 | Drewes, Abraham J. 1959. Les inscriptions de Melazo. Annales d'Ethiopie, 3: 83-99. |
Leclant 1959: 49-50, 75, pl. XXXVIII/a | Leclant, Jean 1959. Haoulti-Melazo (1955-1956). Annales d'Ethiopie, 3: 43-82. |
Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: 103-104, pl. 23 | 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] |