CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

DASI

as-Sawdāʾ 18 RES 2901; M 125


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodA
Textual typologyDedicatory text - fragmentary

GENERAL NOTES

Halévy's copy.
The chronology is based on the first onomastic element Mtb of the divine epithet of ʿṯtr (cf. as-Sawdāʾ 3), which is found only in the Madhabaean period.

TEXT


   1  Ys¹m(ʿ)ʾ[l b]n ʿmʾns¹ ḏ-(ʿ)ḏq mw[d ... ...]
   2  [ʿ]ṯtr Mt[b ...] ḫms¹ ʾmh b-gnʾ by[t ... ...]

Apparatus
1Halévy reads ʿlʾns¹ instead of ʿmʾns¹.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteas-Sawdāʾ
Ancient siteNs²n
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī al-Buhayra
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Avanzini 1995: 105-106Avanzini, 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]
Rossi 2022: 179-180Rossi, Irene 2022. The city-states of the Jawf at the dawn of Ancient South Arabian history (8th-6th centuries BCE). II. Corpus of the inscriptions. (Arabia Antica, 17/2). Roma: «L'Erma» di Bretschneider.