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Ar-M 1
Mohsen and Sabrine 2026: 5, fig. 3
By kind permission of Abdullah Mohsen
By kind permission of Abdullah Mohsen
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Personal adornment (mrbḍ) | ||||
| Material | Gold | ||||
| Decoration |
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| Notes on support and decorations | A golden armour with inscription on the chest, surmounted by a a row of circular elements as pendants. |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | al-Bayḍāʾ |
| Ancient site | Ns²qm |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra |
| Country | Yemen |
| Notes | The piece, which is known from illegal excavations, is thought to come from Nashq/al-Bayḍāʾ based on the dedication to the goddess ḏt-Ns²qm, but it cannot be ruled out that it originally came from the territories of the Minaean kingdom, which - at the time of Wqhʾl Rym - did not include Nashq. The goddess is often mentioned in the Minaic inscriptions. |
| Link to site record |
EPIGRAPHS
| Title | Ar-M 1 |
| Concordance | Plastron de Waqahʾīl |
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic |
| Link to epigraph record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| al-Ḥāyir 2025: 107-130, 154 (photo, facsimile) | al-Ḥāyir, Anwar M. ʿA. 2025. Nuqūsh ǧadīda min ʿuhūd mulūk Maʿīn. Raydān, 18: 105-156. |
| Mohsen and Sabrine 2026: 5, figs 2-3 | Mohsen, Abdullah and Sabrine, Isber 2014. New Evidence on the Looting and Illicit Trafficking of Yemeni Cultural Heritage. Pages 1-19 in Ihab Saloul and Britt Baillie (eds). The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan Cham. 2026/06/04; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61493-5_231-1. |