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as-Sawdāʾ 35 M 134; RES 2912


By kind permission of The British Museum
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By kind permission of The British Museum
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By kind permission of British Museum

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Measure of letters4-4.3, 10.3 (l.1)
Chronology
PeriodB
Textual typologyLegal text

TEXT

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   1  [... ...] (ḏ)-Qbḍ
   2  [... ... ḥfy ](n)fs¹ w-mnwt w-ʾhl ʾmnht(n) [... ...]
   3  [... ...] ywmnt ngw ḏn mḥrn w-mn y(s¹)rʾs²-s¹ [... ...]
   4  [... ...]t Mʿnm w-Yṯl w-l ys³ḫl-s¹ w-s¹gbʾ ḏ-ys¹w(ṯ)[q ... ...]

Apparatus
1Different measure of letters with respect to the following lines. Halévy did non copy the line.
4ʾlʾl]t (Avanzini).

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  [... ...] ḏ-Qbḍ
   2  [... ...] the Supreme Council and the clergy and the staff of trustees [... ...]
   3  [... ...] the date of the announcement of this edict and whoever should engage in some commercial transactions [... ...]
   4  [... ...] Mʿnm and Yṯl and may make it legally binding and effective the one who guarantees [... ...]

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositLondon, The British Museum, BM 125123=1887,0629.24
Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 28.4, w. 64.1, th. 9
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteas-Sawdāʾ
Ancient siteNs²n
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī al-Buhayra
CountryYemen
NotesHalévy copied the text at as-Sawdāʾ.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Avanzini 1995: 138-140, pl. 20/bAvanzini, 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]