DASI ID: ID: 539
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Available on source website
"By kind permission of GOAM"
Text:
Physical
Support: Object → Artefact → Stela → Stela with figure in relief
Materials: Alabaster
Measures: h. 38, w. 23.5, th. 3.5
Decorations:
Figurative Subjects:
View: Frontal
Human Gender: Woman
Human Clothes:
Short sleeved tunic
Human Gestures:
Hand raised
Subject Level 1: Human figure
Human Jewellery:
Bracelet
Part Of Human Body: Bust
Subject Level 1: Plant
Subject Level 2: Ears of corn
Letter Measure: 2.9
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Qatabanic → Central Qatabanic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Writing Techniques: Incision
Concordances: CSAI I, 299
Spatial
Site: Ḥayd Ibn ʿAqīl, Shabwa, Yemen
Ancient Name: Unknown
Type of Site: Religious area with a necropolis
Deposit:
settlement: Aden
institution: The National Museum
private Collection: false
identification Number: NAM 42=AM 729
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