DASI ID: ID: 116
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Text:
Translations:
1ʾlkrb Yhnʿm, of the family Hmtʿ [... ....] 2Ẓbyn his person, his faculy and all [... ...] 3sons of S¹mhʾfq and Yhʿn, ibn Ns²ḥ[... ...] 4and ʾs¹dm and Qs¹qm when He granted [... ...]
Chronological
Period: B
Physical
Support: Object → Artefact → Stela → Stela with framework
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 26.2, w. 33, th. 10.5
Decorations:
Type Level 1: Framework
Figurative Subjects:
Subject Level 1: Geometric motif
Subject Level 2: Dentils
Subject Level 1: Geometric motif
Subject Level 2: False window
Letter Measure: 3 (l. 1)
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Central Middle Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Dedicatory text
Writing Techniques: Incision
Spatial
Site: Ṣirwāḥ-Arḥab, Ṣanʿāʾ, Yemen
Ancient Name: Mdrm
Type of Site: Settlement
Deposit:
settlement: London
institution: The British Museum
private Collection: false
identification Number: BM 125143=1887,0629.31
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