| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
| ||
| Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary (conjectural) |
| Halévy's copy. The inscription may also be a fragmentary dedicatory text. |
| 3 | dextrograde letter d. |
| 5 | RES reads *b*-wd-s¹. Halévy reads Hmt.ṯ.t (the ṯ lacking the higher circle). |
| 6 | Halévy reads a word separator instead of the first w. |
| 7 | Halévy reads ql(l)ḏ[.] and nfʾ-s¹. |
| 8 | Halévy reads w-bhr, a word separator and an l, instead of w-bhn-s¹. |
| English | |
1 [... ...] and his son (?) [... ...] 2 [... ...] 3 [... ...] 4 built and laid the foundations [... ...] 5 and his chief (?) Hmʿṯt ḏ-Qdm and [... ...] 6 his brothers and his house and the temple of the two gods [... ...]- 7 ḏʾ gave [... ...] these (?) two gods himself 8 and his brothers and his sons and what he consecrated against anyone who may remove 9 it from its place. |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| 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: 93-95 | 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] |