DASI ID: ID: 725
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"By kind permission of GOAM"
Text:
Translations:
1Tbʿkrb, Ḥywm and the sons of both of them ʾlwzʾ and Lḥyʿṯt, 2descendants of Gldn, servants of the family Hamdān, constructed, laid the foundations and 3completed their tower Yfʿn, by the power of their Patron 4Tʾlb Rymm, Master of Frḍtn of the city Mḫ- 5dn, and (by) the help of their lords bny Hamdān.
Chronological
Period: C
Physical
Support: Monumental support → Architectural structure
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 27, w. 59, th. 17
Decorations:
Figurative Subjects:
Subject Level 1: Animal
Subject Level 2: Bull
Part Of Animal Body: Head
Letter Measure: about 4
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Central Middle Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Construction text
Writing Techniques: Incision
Concordances: Gl A 671
Spatial
Site: Bayt al-Jālid, Ṣanʿāʾ, Yemen
Ancient Name: Mḫdn
Type of Site: Assumed location for an ancient toponym
Deposit:
settlement: Ṣanʿāʾ
institution: University Museum
private Collection: false
identification Number: A-20-897
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