DASI ID: ID: 3713
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"Catalogue 2000: 278, fig. 21"
Text:
Translations:
1Work of Lḥyʿṯt the Sabaean 2for S²ms, goddess of 3ʾbbhṯ, wife of 4Tbʿm. And he offered to the goddess (his booty) 5as the two of them had sworn, 6interdicted and vowed. And may (the deity) grant favour to her (him?). 7Tbʿm ibn 8Ṣbḥm.
Translation Notes:
"Has made [this] Lḥyʿṯt" (Jamme).
"and he had presented the goddess with goats because both of them were bound together by an oath and confined and had entered a round pavillon, and it [=the deity] had made him happy with prosperity Tbʿm bn Ṣbḥm" (Jamme).
Chronological
Period: C (conjectural)
Physical
Support: Object → Artefact → Stela → Stela with scene
Materials: Alabaster
Measures: h. 20.6, w. 10.5, th. 4
Decorations:
Type Level 1: Scene
Figurative Subjects:
Subject Level 1: Furniture
Subject Level 2: Seat
Subject Level 1: Furniture
Subject Level 2: Incense burner
Subject Level 1: Animal
Subject Level 2: Ibex
View: In profile
Human Gender: Woman
Human Clothes:
Short sleeved tunic
Human Gestures:
Sitting
Subject Level 1: Human figure
Part Of Human Body: Complete figure
Symbol Shape: Crescent moon and disc
Subject Level 1: Symbol
Human Gender: Man
Human Clothes:
Short skirt
Human Weapons:
Bow
Quiver
Dagger/knife
Spear
Human Gestures:
Standing
Subject Level 1: Human figure
Subject Level 1: Vessel
Subject Level 2: Vase
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Central Middle Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Dedicatory text
Writing Techniques: Incision
Concordances: YM 386
Spatial
Site: Tanʿim, Ṣanʿāʾ, Yemen
Ancient Name: Tnʿmt
Type of Site: Settlement
Deposit:
settlement: Ṣanʿāʾ
institution: The National Museum
private Collection: false
identification Number: YM 386
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