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Object Type
Museum number: 125157
Description: Stone slab with 10 line South Arabian inscription in Minaean; an edit about the selection of women to be "wife of Athtar" and approriate offerings which deposited with the women and the presidents of the 'AHL MNHTan; cracked or repaired.
Cultures/periods
Production place: Made in: Yemen
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: As-Sawda
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 28 centimetres; Width: 100 centimetres
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Inscription subject
Bibliographic references: Derenbourg H 1887a / Yemen inscriptions. - The Glaser collection (pp.167-70) (scanned copy); Avanzini 1995a / Inventario delle Inscrizioni sudarabiche, As-Sawda (143-150, pl. 22, 23, 24); Jamme 1971a / Miscellanees d'ancient arabe II (p.39, 42); Kitchen 2000a / Documentation for Ancient Arabia (pp. 31, 32, 34); Capuzzi 1974a / Iscrizioni sudarabiche, Iscrizioni Minee (pp. 83); Pirenne 1956a / Paléographie des inscriptions sud-arabes, Des origines jusqu’à l’époque himyarite (pl. 23c) (photo of the second part of the inscription); Beeston A F L 1976a / Notes on Old South Arabian Lexigraphy, X (pp. 411); Muller W W 1988a / Altsüdarabische Rituale und Beschwörungen (pp. 445-446)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 1997 20 Oct-1998 28 Feb, France, Paris, Musee de L’Institut du Monde Arabe, Yemen, Pays de la Reine de Saba
Condition: Fair; cracked or repaired; five fragments.
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1887
Acquisition notes: Acquired by Eduard Glaser during his second expedition to Yemen in 1885.
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 125157
Registration number: 1887,0629.25
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: Glaser 282 (siglum); Miscellaneous number: M 293 A, B (Capuzzi 1974a); Miscellaneous number: RES 3306 A, B (siglum); Miscellaneous number: as-Sawdā’ 37, 38; Miscellaneous number: ex 638 (exhibition number); Miscellaneous number: ex 90 (exhibition number)

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