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RES 3926 Ry 21
By kind permission of British Museum
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic |
| Script | Ancient South Arabian |
| Script typology | Monumental writing |
| Text direction | Right-to-left |
| Text appearance | Recessed |
| Execution technique | Incision |
| Measure of letters | 1.18 |
TEXT
1 ʾdylm
| 1 | ʾlnʾd (RES and Ryckmans). |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 117818=1925,0724.9 |
| Support type | Artefact » Seal » Stamp seal |
| Material | Semiprecious stone |
| Dimensions | h. 0.95, l. 1.53, w. 0.96; wt. 1.5g |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Bayḥān ad-Dawla |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Masūar |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927: 186 | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Première série. Le Muséon, 40: 161-200. |
| Jamme 1971 b: 69 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1971. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe II. Washington. 2025/04/17; https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.38250313. [Privately printed] |
| Pickworth Wong 1999: 541, no. 333 | Pickworth Wong, Diana 1999. Stamp seals of the ancient Yemen. (PhD, University of California, Berkeley). |