INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
Language Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
Alphabet Ancient South Arabian
Script typology Monumental writing
Writing technique Incision
Textual typology Legal 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 marker
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 1 RES wrongly reads hnhm. 2 Halévy reads y(l)tyb instead of Ġtyb; ḏ-ʾṭr instead of ḏ-s¹ṭr and b-ẓ(l)tn instead of b-ṣ(l)tn. 3 Halévy reads wzws¹ instead of wzʿ-s¹.
OBJECT INFORMATION ORIGIN AND PROVENANCEProvenance Modern site as-Sawdāʾ Ancient site Ns²n Geographical area Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra Country Yemen Link to site record
BIBLIOGRAPHYAvanzini 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]