CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision

GENERAL NOTES

Halévy's copy. As far as the chronology of the text is concerned, Avanzini 1995 suggests the last centuries BC, when both the title "mlk Ns²n" and the typical Minaic suffixes in -h (bynht-s¹m) are possible.

TEXT


   1  mlk Ns²n w-ḏ-ʾtmr[t]((w-ḏʾt-Mr[t]))
   2  [... ...]t(ḏ)w ʾs¹dm bynht-s¹[m]
   3  w-Byḥn w-b-ḏt[ ... ...]

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: 194-196Avanzini, 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]