CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

DASI

as-Sawdāʾ 32 RES 2894+RES 2907; M 117


Mittwoch and Schlobies 1938: no. 87
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

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

TEXT


   1  (ʾ)h s¹dṯ byn ḏbḥn[ ..] w-(qrt) [... ...]
   2  b-mnkṯn ʿlhn bn H(llʾl)[ ... ...]—
   3  rḥ bn-kl Mʿnm (b)-ʾh(gr)[... ... ]
   4  [b]n-kl ḏ-ʾḫrh ʾlm w-(s²)[ymm ... ...]
   5  s¹ʾr ʾrḍm yfnnw-s¹ (w)-hn( m)n[ ... ...]—
   6  s¹ qys¹ ngw b-ḏn w-kwn ṯʿ(d)t [... ...]
   7  ftḥ ry(s³ k)-(mlkn) [w-](ʾs³wdn) w[... ...]

TRANSLATIONS

CSAI (following Avanzini 1995)
English

   1  [... ...] six [... ...] the sacrifice [... ...]
   2  for the violation. ʿlhn, son of Hllʾl [... ...]
   3  [... ...] from all Maʿīn in the towns[... ...]
   4  [... ...] from all which is of the goods (?) of the god and the patron (?) [... ...]
   5  the rest of the territory that he will set in front of him (?) and if someone [... ...]
   6  [... ...] the measure he fixed with this (decree) and the plot of land is [... ...]
   7  the decree he ordered for the king and the nobles [... ...]
Avanzini 1995: 133Avanzini, 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

DepositHamburg, Museum für Völkerkunde, 31.300: 1622
Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteas-Sawdāʾ
Ancient siteNs²n
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī al-Buhayra
CountryYemen
NotesThe text was copied in two fragments by Halévy at as-Sawdāʾ.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Mittwoch and Schlobies 1938: no. 87Mittwoch, Eugen and Schlobies, Hans 1938. Altsüdarabische Inschriften im Hamburgischen Museum für Völkerkunde. Orientalia, 7: 95-99; 233-238; 343-354.
Avanzini 1995: 131-134, pl. 20/aAvanzini, 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]