Language | Ancient South Arabian » Undefined Ancient South Arabian language | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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The item is dated to the 4th-5th c. AD (Pirenne, quoting the stylistic analysis of P. Calmeyer). The text script, however, is only slightly more recent than that of some similar exemplars dated to period D (e.g. LPC 6). |
It is not easy to read the text from the photos, but the verb could be s²m instead of s²n. |
English | |
1 Gs²mm son of Rbʿt moulded (or: put). |
The second translation of the verb follows a different reading (see the text and the Apparatus notes). |
Deposit | Unknown, Foroughi collection (Private collection) |
Support type | Artefact » Container » Jug |
Material | Bronze |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Unknown |
Country | Unknown |
Link to site record |
Pirenne 1990: 83-84, pls LXVb, LXVa-b | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1990. Les témoins écrit de la région de Shabwa et l'histoire. Jean-François Breton (ed.), Fouilles de Shabwa. 1. (Bibliothèque archéologique et historique, 134). Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner. [Institut français d'Archéologie du Proche-Orient] |
ʿAlī ʿAqīl and Antonini 2007: 214, photos | ʿAlī ʿAqīl,ʿAzza and Antonini, Sabina 2007. Bronzi sudarabici di periodo preislamico. Repertorio iconografico sudarabico. 3. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: IsIAO. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente] |
Jändl 2009: 170-171 | Jändl, Barbara 2009. Altsüdarabische Inschriften auf Metall. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 4). Tübingen: Wasmuth / Berlin: Wasmuth. |