DASI ID: ID: 10034
Garbini 1973 d: pl. 5 Image free from copyright
Text:
Translations:
1[This is the inscription] of S¹mhʿly Y- 2nf, son of Yd[ʿʾl, mukarrib] 3[of Sabaʾ when he celebrated] the ritual meal of ʿṯtr 4ḏ-Ḏbn and burnt [offerings to Him in Trḥ].
Chronological
Period: A
Range: 800 BCE - 501 BCE
Physical
Support: Object → Artefact → Stela → Stela with framework
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 68, w. 39
Decorations:
Type Level 1: Framework
Type Level 2: With abstract-figurative elements
Figurative Subjects:
Subject Level 1: Geometric motif
Subject Level 2: Horizontal grooves
Subject Level 1: Geometric motif
Subject Level 2: Dentils
View: Frontal
Subject Level 1: Animal
Subject Level 2: Bull
Part Of Animal Body: Head
View: In profile
Subject Level 1: Animal
Subject Level 2: Ibex
Animal Gestures:
Recumbent
Part Of Animal Body: Complete figure
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Early Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Script Cursus: Boustrophedon
Writing Techniques: Incision
Concordances: Ga 45(Av), Ga 84(Ja)
Spatial
Site: Jabal al-Lawdh, al-Jawf, Yemen
Ancient Name: Kwrn
Type of Site: Religious area
Deposit:
settlement: Ṣanʿāʾ
institution: The National Museum
private Collection: false
identification Number: YM 1045
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