Record Number: 33990
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
The day's finds have been brought in, all the diggers so excited they rushed in with them to show me on my roof. There was a sort of communal grave with about six skulls and the pottery very rough, very like what they make to-day - a pathetic little pot with the word 'MAT' - 'he died' in Himyaritic letters.
Century:1900-1945
Date:17 Jan 1938
Country:Yemen
Timedaytime
Place:city: Huraidha
county: Hadhramaut
location in dwelling: roof top
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:31 Jan 1893
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Explorer and travel writer
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Yemen
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:inscription on pottery
Genre:Unknown, inscription
Form of Text:Manuscript: Graffito, inscription on pottery
Publication Detailsbefore 10th century A.D.
ProvenanceFound
Source Information:
Record ID:33990
Source:Freya Stark
Editor:n/a
Title:The Coast of Incense: Autobiography 1933-1939
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1953
Vol:n/a
Page:194
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Freya Stark, The Coast of Incense: Autobiography 1933-1939, (London, 1953), p. 194, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33990, accessed: 19 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Dame Freya Madeline Stark (31 January 1893 - 9 May 1993) was a British explorer and travel writer. Himyaritic (using the Sabaean script) became an extinct language around the 10th century A.D. Stark had taught herself to read Sabaean.
