Hudhud
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𐩠𐩵𐩠𐩵
ID: 3295

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"Catalogue 2000: 310, cat. 143"

Text:

Translations:

1Ẓwrkrb son of Yʾws¹ʾl, brother of ʾlkrb, qyn of 
2Yḏrḥmlk, erected a stela to S¹mʿ and dedicated to him Yʿd, when 
3he excavated the stone for the wall of his temple (or, his house).

Chronological

Period: A

Physical

Support: Object → Artefact → Offering table → With bull head as gutter
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 17, w. 60, th. 40
Decorations:
Figurative Subjects:
Subject Level 1: Animal
Subject Level 2: Bull
Part Of Animal Body: Head
Subject Level 1: Symbol

Linguistic

Language: Ancient South Arabian → Minaic → Central Minaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Dedicatory text
Writing Techniques: Incision

Spatial

Site: Inabbaʾ, al-Jawf, Yemen
Ancient Name: ʾnbʾ
Type of Site: Settlement
Deposit:
settlement: Ṣanʿāʾ
institution: The National Museum
private Collection: false
identification Number: YM 10598

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