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UAM 214
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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 | 5.1 |
TEXT
1 ḍrwm → lbny → qs¹ṭm → rndm
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Aden, University Museum, UAM 214 |
| Support type | Artefact » Incense burner |
| Shape | Squared |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 9.9, w. 8.7, th. 8.7 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown (wādī Lajiya) |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | wādī Lajiya |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Funerary context: Necropolis |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
lbny and rndm appear in the pre-Islamic poetry, in the Islamic sources, as Yemeni products (Bāfaqīh 1990: 44); see RES 4255.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Prioletta 2010: 177, photo | Prioletta, Alessia 2010. I musei dello Yemen 3. Le iscrizioni del wādī Lajiya al Museo dell'Università di Aden. Egitto e Vicino Oriente, 33: 169-186. |
| Bāfaqīh 1990: 44 | Bāfaqīh, Muḥammad ʿA. 1990. al-šiʿr al-jāhilī wa-l-Yaman. Dirāsāt Yamaniyya, 41. |