Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Legal text |
A close examination of the stone has revealed that after l. 7 there is the beginning of a second text (as-Sawdāʾ 40 B). The two parts were usually considered as one inscription. |
English | |
1 Thus, in ḏ-ʾbhy on the forth and on the seventh and on the extant days what was announced in the legal appeal whatever one time 2 ? of the king from what was granted as the forth part of the Patron deity following to what was announced for him in the legal appeal; whatever 3 was announced in the legal appeal of Wtrʾl in the temple of ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍ according to the directive and the goods of the Ṭbn of Maʿīn 4 according to the directive of the edict which was supervised by ḏ-Kyln and Nḍf; and the guarantees of the judicial decision which was made in relation to the taxation on a third of the goods 5 according to the directive and the goods of the Patron deity and of the Ṭbn of Maʿīn; then agreed (on all this) the king and Maʿīn and the major representatives of Gndn of the clergy 6 in the first year of his kabirate, the notary was the clergy in the month of Yḥmʾl son of Krb ḏ-Kyln [... ...] 7 [... ...] |
Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 125113=1887,0629.19 |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 26, w. 88 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | as-Sawdāʾ |
Ancient site | Ns²n |
Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Avanzini 1995: 152-157, pl. 26 | 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] |