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CIAS 43.11/s 8/R 82 n° 1 Ẓafar 77
Yule 2007: 150, fig. 111
Yule 2007: 150, fig. 111
CIAS: i, 475 (photo)
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 | ||
| Chronology |
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TEXT
1 Ḥẓyn((ḥẓyn))
| 1 | For Pirenne's interpretation of the text as "(La fléchette du) Sort Fortuné" and its relation with the representation of the Sagittarius, see CIAS: i, 476-479. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Slab |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 24, w. 47 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Bayt al-Ashwāl |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Ẓafār |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | Reemployed |
| Link to site record |
| Modern site | Ẓafār |
| Ancient site | Ẓfr |
| Geographical area | Ẓafār |
| Country | Yemen |
| Notes | The object was seen in the wall of a house in a village near Bayt al-Ashwāl, but according to Pirenne it was certainly from Ẓafār. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Garbini 1970 c: 439-446, pl. I/a | Garbini, Giovanni 1970. Un oroscopo himyarita. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 30: 439-446, pl. I, II. |
| Costa 1973: 197-198 | Costa, Paolo M. 1973. Antiquities from Ẓafar (Yemen). Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 33: 185-206. |
| Ryckmans, Jacques 1976 a | Ryckmans, Jacques 1975/1976. Une expression astrologique méconnue dans des inscriptions sabéennes. Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica, 5/6: 251-259. [Miscellanea in honorem Josephi Vergote] |
| Robin 1976 c: 4, fig. 6 | Robin, Christian J. 1976. Le Yemen: l'Arabie heureuse, la reine de Saba. Paris: Bayard-Presse. [[Bible et Terre Sainte 177]] |
| CIAS: i, 473-479 (photo) | Beeston, Alfred F.L., Pirenne, Jacqueline and Robin, Christian J. 1977-1986. Corpus des inscriptions et antiquités sud-arabes: Vol. I (1977): Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités; Vol. II (1986): Le Musée d’Aden. Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités. Louvain: Peeters. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres] |
| Yule 2007: 150, fig. 111 | Yule, Paul 2007. Himyar: Spästantike im Jemen (= Himyar, Late antique Yemen). Aichwald: Linden Soft. |