Support type | Stone inscription | ||||||||||||||
Material | Stone | ||||||||||||||
Measures | h. 38, w. 30 | ||||||||||||||
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Notes on support and decorations | This limestone bloc preserves a roughly worked figurative representation in very low relief. It consists in a human figure in profile, facing right. The figure, wearing a long dress, raises something (probably a goblet), while two vases are placed on the ground at the left of this figure. |
Modern site | Hajar Ḍabūʿa |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Nihm |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Notes | The stone bloc was seen on the surface of the site of al-ʿĀdī in the wādī Ḍabūʿa. |
Link to site record |
Title | Nihm/Ḍabūʿa 2 |
Concordance | MAFRAY-ʿĀdī Ḍabūʿa 2 |
Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic |
Link to epigraph record |
Frantsouzoff 2016: 112-113, pls 29/a-b | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2016. Nihm. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. With contribution by Christian J. Robin. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 8. Paris: De Boccard. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; Collège de France, Laboratoire des Études Sémitiques anciennes; Académie des sciences de Russie Institut des manuscrits orientaux] |