as-Sawdāʾ 87 Ry 27; M 310; RES 3332
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 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary |
TEXT
1 [.]||| [.](ṭṭ)[.](r)[... ...]
2 hn w-(q)nṣn whr[... ...]
3 (ʿr)bn w[..]lh s¹ʾl (ʿ)[ṯtr ... ...]
4 [... ... b-ʾ]ḫr kbrh (Ġy)[... ... ]
5 [... ... ṯʿ](y)n w-bn ġr[... ...]
6 [... ... w-s²k-ʾ](y) ywmh [... ...]
7 [... ... Nk](rḥ) wʾs¹[... ...]
8 [... ...]b[... ...]yl[... ...]
| 1-8 | In the brackets, the autoptic reading by G. Ryckmans. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...] 2 [... ...] granted (?) [... ...] 3 the offer [... ...] that ʿṯtr asked for (?) 4 in the last kabirate of Ġ[... ...] 5 [... ...] and from (?) [... ...] 6 [... ...] in the day in which [... ...] 7 [... ...] Nkrḥ [... ...] 8 [... ...] |
| Avanzini 1995: 207 | 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] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 125110=1887,0629.36 |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 21, w. 25, th. 8 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | as-Sawdāʾ |
| Ancient site | Ns²n |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927: 189 | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Première série. Le Muséon, 40: 161-200. |
| Avanzini 1995: 206-208, pl. 42/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] |