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as-Sawdāʾ 54 M 295; RES 3308
By kind permission of British Museum
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 3.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Legal text |
GENERAL NOTES
| The date is hypothetical. |
TEXT
1 ʾmnt hʾmn ʾs¹—
2 wr b-qdmy ḏ-
3 Grbm bn ʾs¹ l—
4 (q)ḥ w-ʾmn
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Deposit which entrusted ʾs¹- 2 wr before ḏ- 3 Grbm against whoever may 4 take and entrust it. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 125122=1887,0629.13 |
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 16.5, w. 18.5, th. 5.5 |
| 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: 178-179, pl. 37/a | 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] |