CSAI
Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


By kind permission of British Museum

DEPOSIT INFORMATION

DepositLondon, The British Museum, BM 132617=1959,0715.2
NotesDonated by Professor Mahmoud Ali al-Ghul, 15th May 1959.

SUPPORT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 20.6, w. 11.1, th. 8
Notes on support and decorationsA long, loaf-shaped stone inscribed on three faces.
Face A: eight thinly incised elongated lines some with what might be side-strokes or elongated loops but nothing sufficiently certain to produce a reading.
Face B: one line of letters which are too faint to read.
Face C: one line of chiselled letters in which the first m is back-to-front.
Face D: two chiselled lines on a narrow face in which both examples of m are back-to-front.

ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Unknown
Modern siteUnknown
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaUnknown
CountryUnknown
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EPIGRAPHS

TitleBM 132617D 1
LanguageAncient South Arabian » Undefined Ancient South Arabian language
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TitleBM 132617C 1
LanguageAncient South Arabian » Undefined Ancient South Arabian language
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