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Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

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Ja 880 Q 564; C 76; CSAI I, 629


By kind permission of British Museum
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By kind permission of British Museum
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By kind permission of British Museum

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Measure of letters2

TEXT

marker


   1  ʿzzʾl ḏ-ʿmydʿ

Apparatus
1ʿmydʿ is attested as a name of person; here it could be a patronymic.

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositLondon, The British Museum, BM 122016=1930,0613.12
Support typeArtefact » Base » Of statue
MaterialAlabaster
Dimensionsh. 4.2, w. 12.8, th. 6
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin. Conjectural
Modern siteḤayd Ibn ʿAqīl
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaWādī Bayḥān
CountryYemen
Archaeological contextFunerary context
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Jamme 1963 b: 63Jamme, Albert W.F. 1963. Les trois antiquités qatabanites en bronze Ja 886-888. Oriens Antiquus, 1: 133-135.
Jamme 1971 b: pl. 2 (facsimile)Jamme, Albert W.F. 1971. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe II. Washington. 2025/04/17; https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.38250313. [Privately printed]
Antonini 2001: 101, pl. 53Antonini, Sabina 2001. La statuaria sudarabica in pietra. Repertorio iconografico sudarabico. 1. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: IsIAO. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente]