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Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: ii, pl. 25
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Ethiopian Early Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
1 Ylbb
2 grbyn
3 (h)qny l-←ʾlmqh
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Ylbb, 2 the stonemason, 3 dedicated to ʾlmqh. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Addis Abeba, National Archaeological Museum, JE 111 |
| Support type | Artefact » Incense burner |
| Shape | With truncated pyramidal base |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 46.5, w. 16 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| 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 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Drewes 1959: 85-86, 92-93 | Drewes, Abraham J. 1959. Les inscriptions de Melazo. Annales d'Ethiopie, 3: 83-99. |
| Leclant 1959: 47, 63, 69-70, pls XXVI/b, XXXII-XXXIII | Leclant, Jean 1959. Haoulti-Melazo (1955-1956). Annales d'Ethiopie, 3: 43-82. |
| Leroy 1973: 81, fig. 35 | Leroy, Jules 1973. L'Ethiopie : archéologie et culture. Bruxelles: Desclée De Brower. |
| Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: 105-106, pl. 25 | 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] |