Posted 3 years ago
Jiji
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The ?imyarite Kingdom maintained nominal control in Arabia until 525. Its economy was based on agriculture, and foreign trade centered on the export of frankincense and myrrh. For many years, the kingdom was also the major intermediary linking East Africa and the Mediterranean world
Thank you for explaining some background on your post ! Some great old artifacts .
Jiji, Fascinating. :-)
Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), there seems to be a typographical error in your post (the leading question mark in "?imyarite"), which caused me to go in search of more information:
https://www.rebuildthemiddleeast.com/history-of-the-middleeast/2020/1/5/the-himyarites-1
wow... a direct quote from wikipedia
TallCakes, Is that what that rebuildthemiddleeast dot com piece is? };-)
With no attribution? Naughty. >8-0
reading the 'history' section on 'Himyarite Kingdom' on WP the OP description of a word for word quote....
Hmmm, that's naughty. :-(
I try always to give a link for information I quote so everybody understands the source.
Thank you manikin
Happy to read your comment
Sorry kiramikos it's keyboard mistake and I did not see it
And thank you Tallcakes for correcting
Himyarite Kingdom
Oh good heavens, here we go again...someone claiming to be from somewhere backwards claiming that they have some priceless artifact they 'dug up'...then they incessantly bother all of us (on a collector website, NOT a legit museum or any actual authority) with made up or irrelevant 'facts' about it, going completely against all logic or common sense.
I love CW S&T, but this kind of [bovine scat] gets tiring... <groan>
Your pieces are interesting. So let's try again..
Where did you get these? Did YOU dig them up and where? Are you an archeologist, a treasure hunter, a looter? How did you get them?
Have you learned anything about the pieces? Translations, metallurgy? For something that has been in the ground, there doesn't seem to be any patina, corrosion, handling marks, etc.
You cannot just post a picture and say old, worth money.
Jiji, no problem on the keyboard error. :-)
Not infrequently, people submit words with characters that don't appear in the U.S. English alphabet, and the software here at Collectors Weekly Show & Tell will substitute a question mark. I've had it happen to me.
However, I concur with dav2no1: could you tell us a bit more about the pieces in your post?
About the South Arabian alphabet (you'll have to go to the omniglot dot com webpage to see the characters themselves):
*snip*
The South Arabian alphabet is thought to have developed from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet in about the 9th century BC. It is known from inscriptions found in Eritrea, Babylonia and Yemen dating from between 9th century BC and 7th century AD, and was used to write Sabaean, Qatabanian, Hadramautic, Minaean, Himyarite and proto-Ge'ez, extinct Semitic languages once spoken in southern parts of the Arabian peninsula.
*snip*
https://omniglot.com/writing/southarabian.htm
This is why I ask about where you got them...pieces of historical value are lost every day..
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/arts/design/steinhardt-billionaire-stolen-antiquities.html
The NYT's stealth paywall strikes again. :-(
Here's the story on Steinhardt and his artifacts:
https://www.manhattanda.org/d-a-vance-michael-steinhardt-surrenders-180-stolen-antiquities-valued-at-70-million/