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as-Sawdāʾ 18 RES 2901; M 125
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 | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
GENERAL NOTES
| Halévy's copy. The chronology is based on the first onomastic element Mtb of the divine epithet of ʿṯtr (cf. as-Sawdāʾ 3), which is found only in the Madhabaean period. |
TEXT
1 Ys¹m(ʿ)ʾ[l b]n ʿmʾns¹ ḏ-(ʿ)ḏq mw[d ... ...]
2 [ʿ]ṯtr Mt[b ...] ḫms¹ ʾmh b-gnʾ by[t ... ...]
| 1 | Halévy reads ʿlʾns¹ instead of ʿmʾns¹. |
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: 105-106 | 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] |
| Rossi 2022: 179-180 | Rossi, Irene 2022. The city-states of the Jawf at the dawn of Ancient South Arabian history (8th-6th centuries BCE). II. Corpus of the inscriptions. (Arabia Antica, 17/2). Roma: «L'Erma» di Bretschneider. |