DASI ID: ID: 7096
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"By kind permission of British Museum"
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"By kind permission of British Museum"
Text:
Physical
Support: Object → Artefact → Seal → Stamp seal
Materials: Semiprecious stone
Measures: h. 0.94, l. 1.45, w. 1.23; wt. 2.5g
Decorations:
Figurative Subjects:
View: In profile
Subject Level 1: Animal
Subject Level 2: Lion
Animal Gestures:
Rampant
Part Of Animal Body: Complete figure
Letter Measure: 0.58
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Qatabanic → Central Qatabanic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Writing Techniques: Incision
Spatial
Site: Bayḥān ad-Dawla, al-Bayḍāʾ, Yemen
Ancient Name: Unknown
Deposit:
settlement: London
institution: The British Museum
private Collection: false
identification Number: BM 117817=1925,0724.8
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