Votive or funerary stele, ca. late 1st millennium

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Votive or funerary stele, ca. late 1st millennium , Southwestern Arabia, Alabaster (gypsum), 9 5/8 x 4 in. ( x cm), Stone-Sculpture-Inscribed, This highly polished alabaster stele is made of two pieces. A smooth undecorated slab sits in a socket carved into a stepped base. Inscribed in Sabaic letters in two rows on the base is “DRMT SFLYN.” This name, 'Dhurmat (of the clan) Safalin” identifies the person, perhaps a woman, who dedicated the monument

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