Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic |
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian |
Script typology | Monumental writing |
Writing technique | Incision |
1 | see CIAS P 22/s 4/46.11 n° 2 and CIAS P 45/s 4/46.11 for the integration of the first family name. |
Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 399 |
Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with figure in relief |
Subject | Bull head |
Material | Alabaster |
Measures | h. 59, w. 31, th. 5 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | wādī al-Jūba |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Funerary context |
Notes | Qs³mm and Bḥtn appear together in a group of texts from wādī al-Jūba. |
Link to site record |
CIAS: i, 405-407, photo | Beeston, Alfred F.L., Pirenne, Jacqueline and Robin, Christian J. 1977-1986. Corpus des inscriptions et antiquités sud-arabes: Vol. I (1977): Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités; Vol. II (1986): Le Musée d’Aden. Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités. Louvain: Peeters. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres] |
Lombardi 2008: 183 | Lombardi, Alessandra 2008. Note di storia dell'arte sudarabica III. Le stele funerarie a protome taurina. Egitto e Vicino Oriente, 31: 165-191. |