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RES 3232-42 CIH 925
By kind permission of British Museum
By kind permission of British Museum
By kind permission of British Museum
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Late Sabaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Raised | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 5 | ||
| Chronology |
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GENERAL NOTES
| Mordtmann-Mittwoch (in RES) joined this fragment to RES 3232-42 and RES 3232-44. Gajda 1997: 164 suggests reading the three fragments of RES 3232 in the following order: l. 1=l. 1 of CIH 926; l. 2=l. 1 of CIH 925 and l .2 of CIH 926; l. 3=l. 1 of CIH 923, l. 2 of CIH 925, l. 3 of CIH 926; l. 4=l. 2 of CIH 923, l. 3 of CIH 925, l. 4 of CIH 926. |
TEXT
1 [... ...]w-ṣlt-hmw bllm w-[.]w[... ...]
2 [... ...]ʾls¹ny-hmw rs¹t[.] l[... ...]
3 [... ...]ʿy w-bn Hbʾs¹ w-b-s²ym[ ... ...]
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 125065=1881,1206E.9 |
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | 21.5, w. 43.5, th. 9.3 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Gajda 1997: 163-164 | Gajda, Iwona 1997. Ḥimyar gagné par le monothéisme (IVe-VIe siècle de l'ère chrétienne). Ambitions et ruine d'un royaume de l'Arabie méridionale antique. (Université d'Aix-en-Provence). |