GlaViWo - Museum: AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-BRMU-1887-0629-36

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AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-BRMU-1887-0629-36

BM/Big number (125110)
BM/Registration number (1887,0629.36)

GL-number:	Glaser 340
Currently available:	British Museum

Former owner:	Glaser, Eduard	Material:	limestone (white)
Provenance:	Purchased from Eduard Glaser in 1887.
Creation date:		Production date:
Period/Culture:	Minaean
Locality:	Yemen as-Sawdāʾ
Language:	Minaic
height:	29.50	cm	on stone base
height:	21 cm	cm	()
thickness:	11.30	cm	on stone base
thickness:	8	cm	()
width:	28	cm	on stone base
width:	25	cm	()

First translation:

Jamme 1971a

Linked signature, parents:	AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-ZAMU-11-01-390 AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-LOAR-232-34-005
Linked signature, children:	AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-F-01470

Contents:
Fragment of limestone slab inscribed on the face with 8 lines of a edict inscribed in Minaean dialect of South Arabia; roughly dressed at the top and along the left side; top right corner cut away, presumably reflecting later reuse in construction; very badly worn.

Object remarks:
incomplete; very badly worn

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