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Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

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RES 3127 Ry 33


By kind permission of British Museum

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Undefined Ancient South Arabian language
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Measure of letters0.47
Chronology
PeriodB

GENERAL NOTES

Same text as BM 1871,1113.3.

TEXT

marker


   1  Ḥnbṣm b—
   2  n Mqmhs¹m

Apparatus
Ryckmans (and Jamme too) considers the inscription to be a fake. The forger took the curse formula: bn mqmh-s¹m "(whoever will remove them) from their place" as the word bn followed by a patronymic.

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositLondon, The British Museum, BM 116621=1924,0429.2
Support typeArtefact » Seal » Stamp seal
MaterialSilver
Dimensionsh. 0.72, l. 3.23, w. 1.22; wt. 18g
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteUnknown
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaUnknown
CountryUnknown
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927: 191-192, no. 33Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Première série. Le Muséon, 40: 161-200.
Jamme 1971 b: 59Jamme, Albert W.F. 1971. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe II. Washington. 2025/04/17; https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.38250313. [Privately printed]