DASI ID: ID: 5078
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"By kind permission of Mission Qatabān"
Text:
Translations:
1Rʾbn son of Rʾbm Ẓwrt servant of Wrwʾl 2dedicated to ʾnby (the person of) ʿmydʿ and all his sons; by 3ʿm and by ʾnby and by ḏt Ṣntm and by Wrwʾl.
Chronological
Period: A
Physical
Support: Object → Artefact → Altar
Materials: Stone
Shape: With truncated pyramidal base
Measures: h. of the altar 42.5; h. 22.5, w. 34.5 (face B)
Decorations:
Figurative Subjects:
Subject Level 1: Symbol
Letter Measure: 5.5
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Qatabanic → Central Qatabanic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Script Cursus: Boustrophedon
Textual Typology: Dedicatory text
Writing Techniques: Incision
Concordances: CSAI I, 90
Spatial
Site: Hajar Kuḥlān, Shabwa, Yemen
Ancient Name: Tmnʿ
Type of Site: Settlement
Deposit:
settlement: Bayḥān
institution: Museum
private Collection: false
identification Number: 680 748
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