DASI ID: ID: 9
Avanzini 1995: pls 34-36 Image free from copyright
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Translations:
1Hʿll 2[.]byn subject of the banū [.]rm dedicated to ʿṯtr ḏ-Rṣfm the incense burner Yʿd 3when he repaired and built the temple ʾrṯtm, when Ḏmrṯʿ 4ḏ-Ns²n and ʾb[... ...]priest of ʿṯtr ḏ-Grbm and ḏ-Rṣfm shared (?) vines 5to offer tithes 6for his well being and of 7his faculty and of his material resources 8and of his sons.
Chronological
Period: B
Physical
Support: Object → Artefact → Incense burner
Materials: Stone
Shape: With truncated pyramidal base
Measures: h. 41, w. 22 (at the top), th. 21
Decorations:
Figurative Subjects:
Subject Level 1: Animal
Subject Level 2: Bull
Part Of Animal Body: Head
Letter Measure: 3
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: CIH 440
Spatial
Site: as-Sawdāʾ, al-Jawf, Yemen
Ancient Name: Ns²n
Type of Site: Settlement
Deposit:
settlement: London
institution: The British Museum
private Collection: false
identification Number: BM 125141=1887,0629.21
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