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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
Language
Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
Alphabet
Ancient South Arabian
Script typology
Monumental writing
Measure of letters
4 (max.); 3.6 (min.)
Chronology
Period
C. Conjectural
GENERAL NOTES
According to the shape of some letters, especially of /r/, the king Ydʾʾl Ḏrḥ cannot be identified with the king who reigned around 670 BC, but with Ydʿʾl Ḏrḥ, who reigned around 10 BC.
Tschinkowitz, Helga 1969. Kleine Fragmente. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 6. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 261/4). Vienna: Böhlau in Kommission.