as-Sawdāʾ 35 M 134; RES 2912
By kind permission of The British Museum
- By kind permission of The British Museum
- By kind permission of British Museum
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 4-4.3, 10.3 (l.1) | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Legal text |
TEXT
1 [... ...] (ḏ)-Qbḍ
2 [... ... ḥfy ](n)fs¹ w-mnwt w-ʾhl ʾmnht(n) [... ...]
3 [... ...] ywmnt ngw ḏn mḥrn w-mn y(s¹)rʾs²-s¹ [... ...]
4 [... ...]t Mʿnm w-Yṯl w-l ys³ḫl-s¹ w-s¹gbʾ ḏ-ys¹w(ṯ)[q ... ...]
| 1 | Different measure of letters with respect to the following lines. Halévy did non copy the line. |
| 4 | ʾlʾl]t (Avanzini). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...] ḏ-Qbḍ 2 [... ...] the Supreme Council and the clergy and the staff of trustees [... ...] 3 [... ...] the date of the announcement of this edict and whoever should engage in some commercial transactions [... ...] 4 [... ...] Mʿnm and Yṯl and may make it legally binding and effective the one who guarantees [... ...] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 125123=1887,0629.24 |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 28.4, w. 64.1, th. 9 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | as-Sawdāʾ |
| Ancient site | Ns²n |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra |
| Country | Yemen |
| Notes | Halévy copied the text at as-Sawdāʾ. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Avanzini 1995: 138-140, pl. 20/b | Avanzini, Alessandra 1995. As-Sawdāʾ. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 4. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente] |