as-Sawdāʾ 36 Ry 25; M 140; RES 2918
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 | 3.3 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary |
TEXT
1 [... ...]mrm w-ṯmnm btʿ ʾw s¹kr w-ṯmr-s¹ w-ḥly w-ʿ(t)[... ...]
2 [... ...]w-mḏḫr rḍwm ḏbḥn (w)-ḏn b-ybhṯ ḏ-bytn qdmn ṯny ʿẓmny [... ...]
3 [... ...](ẓ)l[n ʿ]d rṣfn ʿẓm /1/ w-(ʾ)rbʿt ḫs³f w-l ys¹tḥwn w-mhn ys¹trf[... ...]
4 [... ...] k-ḏ bytn w-k bʿl ḏ-yḏbḥ fq kl-s¹m w-kl mḏḫrn w-[... ...]
5 [... ... ](ms¹k)-s¹[ ..]m bʿl-(s¹ ḏ)-(y)ḏbḥ-s¹ w-s¹ʾr ṯmnn k-s¹m wḏnm[... ...]
| 3 | The ʾ of ʾrʿb is written as a s¹. |
| 5 | At the beginning, reading by G. Mazzini. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 125168=1887,0629.20 |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 27, w. 91.5, th. 9.4 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | as-Sawdāʾ |
| Ancient site | Ns²n |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra |
| Country | Yemen |
| Notes | "Cinq lignes hors de la ville" (Halévy). |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927: 188 | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Première série. Le Muséon, 40: 161-200. |
| Pirenne 1956: pl. 23/e | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1956. Paléographie des inscriptions sud-arabes. Contribution à la chronologie et à l'histoire de l'Arabie du sud antique. (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België. Klasse der letteren, 26). Brussels: Paleis der Academiën. |
| Avanzini 1995: 140-143, pl. 21 | 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] |