stela
- Museum number
- 1985,0223.126
- Description
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Calcite-alabaster funerary stela with curved top and integral base; inscribed with personal name in Qatabanic, Rzḥn Dnm, in ancient South Arabian on the face of the base with traces of deliberate white infilling in the letters of the inscription; lightly incised guide lines for the letters; the face is carefully polished but the back is roughly worked.
- Production date
- 2ndC BC-1stC BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 12.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The inscription is in Qatabanic and it is likely that this monument, given its funerary function, was recovered at the cemetery at Timna'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1985
- Acquisition notes
- Collected in South Yemen between 1961-1967.
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1985,0223.126