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as-Sawdāʾ 32 RES 2894+RES 2907; M 117
Mittwoch and Schlobies 1938: no. 87
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 | Legal text - fragmentary |
TEXT
1 (ʾ)h s¹dṯ byn ḏbḥn[ ..] w-(qrt) [... ...]
2 b-mnkṯn ʿlhn bn H(llʾl)[ ... ...]—
3 rḥ bn-kl Mʿnm (b)-ʾh(gr)[... ... ]
4 [b]n-kl ḏ-ʾḫrh ʾlm w-(s²)[ymm ... ...]
5 s¹ʾr ʾrḍm yfnnw-s¹ (w)-hn( m)n[ ... ...]—
6 s¹ qys¹ ngw b-ḏn w-kwn ṯʿ(d)t [... ...]
7 ftḥ ry(s³ k)-(mlkn) [w-](ʾs³wdn) w[... ...]
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...] six [... ...] the sacrifice [... ...] 2 for the violation. ʿlhn, son of Hllʾl [... ...] 3 [... ...] from all Maʿīn in the towns[... ...] 4 [... ...] from all which is of the goods (?) of the god and the patron (?) [... ...] 5 the rest of the territory that he will set in front of him (?) and if someone [... ...] 6 [... ...] the measure he fixed with this (decree) and the plot of land is [... ...] 7 the decree he ordered for the king and the nobles [... ...] |
| Avanzini 1995: 133 | 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] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Hamburg, Museum für Völkerkunde, 31.300: 1622 |
| 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 |
| Notes | The text was copied in two fragments by Halévy at as-Sawdāʾ. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Mittwoch and Schlobies 1938: no. 87 | Mittwoch, Eugen and Schlobies, Hans 1938. Altsüdarabische Inschriften im Hamburgischen Museum für Völkerkunde. Orientalia, 7: 95-99; 233-238; 343-354. |
| Avanzini 1995: 131-134, pl. 20/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] |