HSM 1936.1.15
By kind permission of Harvard Semitic Museum
DEPOSIT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Cambridge MA, Harvard Semitic Museum, 1936.1.15 |
| Notes | The object is part of a collection of nearly two hundred South Arabian items acquired by Harvard's Peabody Museum in 1935 and 1936 from a certain Israel Subeiri of Ṣanʿāʾ, through the anthropologist Professor Carlton S. Coon, at that time on the Harvard faculty. In 1936 the Harvard Semitic Museum purchased from the Peabody Museum a number of items in this collection. |
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 18.3, w. 29, th. 7 |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | as-Sawdāʾ |
| Ancient site | Ns²n |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra |
| Country | Yemen |
| Notes | The supposed origin of the object is only based on the restoration of the god ʿAthar Nashq, who belongs to the pantheon of this city during the phase A. |
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EPIGRAPHS
| Title | HSM 1936.1.15 |
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic |
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