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as-Sawdāʾ 12 RES 2923; M 145
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary (conjectural) |
GENERAL NOTES
| Halévy's copy. The inscription may also be a fragmentary dedicatory text. |
TEXT
1 [... ...]nh-s¹ [... ...]
2 | ḏ-ʿḏbt [... ...]
3 [... ...]m(d)hn w[... ...]
4 bny w-ʿ[s¹n ... ...]
5 | (s¹)wd-s¹ Hmtʿṯt ḏ-Qdm w-b
6 ʾḫh-s¹ w-byt-s¹ w-byt ʾ[l]nhn m[... ...]—
7 ḏʾ whb ql(l)ḏ[.] ḏn ʾlnhn nfs¹-s¹
8 [ʾ]ḫh-s¹ w-bhn-s¹ w-s³lʾ-s¹ bn ḏ-y[s¹nkr]-
9 s¹ bn mqmh-s¹
| 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. |
TRANSLATIONS
| 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. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| 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: 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] |