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CIH 796 RES 3322
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Raised | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 13.2 | ||
| Chronology |
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GENERAL NOTES
| The date is hypothetical, Kitchen 2000, 150: later 1st century BC |
TEXT
1 [... ... H]wfʿṯt w-Yhʿn w-Wh[... ...]
2 [... ... Ns²]ʾkrb w-Rms¹m w-ʿ[... ...]
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 125151=1887,0629.22 |
| Support type | Artefact » Slab |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 30, w. 74, th. 12.5 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | al-Ḥuqqa |
| Ancient site | Dmhn |
| Geographical area | Banī al-Ḥārith |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Müller, Walter W. 1972 b: 120-121 | Müller, Walter W. 1972. Neuentdeckte Sabäische Inschriften aus al-Ḥuqqa. Neue Ephemeris für semitische Epigraphik, 1: 103-121. |
| Kitchen 2000: 150 | Kitchen, Kenneth A. 2000. Documentation for Ancient Arabia. Part II. Bibliographical Catalogue of Texts. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. |