as-Sawdāʾ 39 M 300; RES 3316
By kind permission of British Museum
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 2.6 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary |
TEXT
1 [... ...](w)[... ...]
2 [... ...] (ʾ)ḥl-s¹m b-ms¹[... ...]
3 [... ...]h w-mwḍʾth whb[... ...]
4 [... ...]brwh-s¹m w-bhn-s¹m [... ...]
5 [... ... M]ʿnm w-ʾnṯht-s¹m w-[... ...]
6 [... ...] (h)grnyhn w-ms²qbtn bn[... ...]
7 [... ...]wn ʾmlkn w-ʾns¹ktn [... ...]
| 5 | At the end of the line: w-(ʾw)[ld-s¹m (Avanzini). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...] 2 [... ...] their properties along the road [... ..] 3 [... ...] and the tithes that they paid [... ...] 4 [... ...] their descendants and their sons [... ...] 5 [... ...] Maʿīn and their women and their sons [... ...] 6 [... ...] the two towns and the fields from [... ...] 7 [... ...] the possessions and the offers [... ...] |
| Avanzini 1995: 151 | Avanzini, 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
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 125982=1887,0629.18 |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 21, w. 26, th. 6.5 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | as-Sawdāʾ |
| Ancient site | Ns²n |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Avanzini 1995: 150-152, pl. 25 | Avanzini, 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] |