DASI ID: ID: 10065
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"Catalogue 2000: 343, fig. 220"
Text:
Chronological
Period: A
Range: 800 BCE - 501 BCE
Physical
Support: Object → Artefact → Stela → Stela with framework
Materials: Alabaster
Measures: h. 110, w. 65, th. 11
Decorations:
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
Letter Measure: 5
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Early Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Script Cursus: Boustrophedon
Textual Typology: Dedicatory text
Writing Techniques: Incision
Spatial
Site: al-ʿAmāyid / ʿArsh Bilqīs, Maʾrib, Yemen
Ancient Name: Brʾn
Type of Site: Religious area
Deposit:
settlement: Ṣanʿāʾ
institution: The National Museum
private Collection: false
identification Number: YM 14329
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