CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

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

GENERAL NOTES

Halévy's copies: ll. 1-4=Hal 386, ll. 5-7=Hal 387. RES: "nous ignorons comment les deux fragments se rattachent l'un à l'autre". Corrections by RES.

TEXT


   1  [y]s³q hnmh y[... ...]
   2  kl ʾhl Ġtyb w-Ṣhrn ʿ[... ... ... ...]—
   3  y bn ḏ-<s¹>ṭr k-s¹ b-ṣ(l)tn w[... ...]
   4  ys³q wzʿ-s¹ s²km[..]ws³q wz[ʿ ... ...]
   5  hdʾbly ws²[... ...]
   6  kl bs²rn w[... ... ... ...]—
   7  n l-yhbn k-m[... ...]

Apparatus
1RES wrongly reads hnhm.
2Halévy reads y(l)tyb instead of Ġtyb; ḏ-ʾṭr instead of ḏ-s¹ṭr and b-ẓ(l)tn instead of b-ṣ(l)tn.
3Halévy reads wzws¹ instead of wzʿ-s¹.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteas-Sawdāʾ
Ancient siteNs²n
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī al-Buhayra
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Avanzini 1995: 134-136Avanzini, 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]