as-Sawdāʾ 27 M 294; RES 3307
By kind permission of British Museum
- By kind permission of British Museum
- Pirenne 1956: pl. 30/c
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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 | ||
| Royal inscription | Yes |
TEXT
1 ʾlyfʿ Wqh ml(k) Mʿn w-s²ʿ(b)-(s¹) Mʿn [... ...]
2 rṯd w-s¹s²rḥ ʿm Rʾb ḏ-Nyṭ k-ʾydw[h-s¹... ...]
3 kwnt ḏt gzytn ʾṣnʿ kl gz[... ... ... ...]—
4 fʿ ʾḥly ḏ-Nyṭ b-ḏn rbbn w-l[... ... s¹]—
5 twqh rs²wy ʾlhn w-qdm mnw(t)[... ...]
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 ʾlyfʿ Wqh king of Maʿīn and his tribe Maʿīn [... ...] 2 entrusted and put under the protection of Rʾb ḏ-Nyṭ, for the part-ownership [... ...] 3 this commendation was established as the firmest one among all the commendations [... ...] 4 [... ...] goods of ḏ-Nyṭ in this ? [... ...] 5 were in charge the priests of the god and the chief of the staff of trustee [... ...] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 125131=1887,0629.27 |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 25, w. 57, th. 11.4 |
| 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
| Avanzini 1995: 120-122, pl. 19/a | 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] |