Support type | Artefact » Plaque » With framework | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Material | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Notes on support and decorations | The plaque has an elaborate framework: on the top a series of bull's heads in frontal view is placed between two rows of dentils. On the lateral sides the symmetrical framework is filled by four human figures, in profile, with the right hand raised and the left holding a situla. |
Modern site | al-Bayḍāʾ |
Ancient site | Ns²qm |
Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh bʿl Myfʿm |
Link to site record |
Modern site | Bayt Kulāb |
Ancient site | Wʿr |
Geographical area | Rayda |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh bʿl Myfʿm |
Notes | The editors of the inscriptions (Bron and Lemaire 2009; Robin and de Maigret 2009) suppose that the text comes from the city of Nashqum on the basis of the nisba of its author. However, the presence of the nisba suggests that the dedication was made in a different place with respect to the author's provenance; the temple of ʾlmqh bʿl Myfʿm in Bayt Kulāb (cf. MAFY-Bayt Kulāb 1 and 2) is at present the best candidate (Multhoff 2019: 18, fn. 84). |
Link to site record |
Title | B-L Nashq ? |
Concordance | Demirjian 1 |
Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic |
Link to epigraph record |
Multhoff 2019 | Multhoff, Anne 2019. Merchant and marauder—The adventures of a Sabaean clansman. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy: 1-24. 2019/11/18; https://doi.org/10.1111/aae.12127. |