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Ja 476
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 2.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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TEXT
1 [... ...](w)[.](r)[.]
2 [... ...] ʾrḍt
3 [... ...] w-tḍʿ
4 [... ... S¹b]ʾ w-ḏ-Ry—
5 [dn ... ... ]w-ḥs¹m
6 [... ...]
| Line 4 excluded, the words at the end of the lines might be broken and continue on the following line. | |
| 5 | ḥs¹m means "to defeat" and is found in coordination with wḍʿ (RES 3884, l.4; cf. here l. 3); however, note that Ḥs¹mm is a lineage name in DhM 239. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Roma, Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”, inv. 13050/16062 |
| Support type | Artefact » Slab |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 18.7, w. 10.1, th. 7.8 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Naʿḍ |
| Ancient site | Nʿḍ |
| Geographical area | Waʿlān |
| Country | Yemen |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Jamme 1956 a: 94-96, pl. XII/476 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1956. Les antiquités sud-arabes du Museo Nazionale Romano. Monumenti antichi, 43: 1-120. |