“…Compared to the pitfalls associated with palaeographical dating of Greek and Latin inscriptions, the Old South Arabian script is far more easily divided into distinct palaeographical steps, and a number of anchor points based on synchronisms have in recent years led to the emergence of a fixed chronology (cf. Arbach, 2017; Stein, 2013). Thus, M 349 belongs to Stein's palaeographical step C1 evincing broken cross bars ( ʾ , ḫ and n ), tall, slender vertical bars, unfolding m , wide t , and elementary serifs.…”