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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
Minaean
Production place
Made in:
Yemen
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
As-Sawda
Materials
stone
Dimensions
Height:
28 centimetres
Width:
100 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject
legal
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
Named in inscription:
Athtar
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Sir Eduard Glaser
(1885)
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)