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as-Sawdāʾ 33 RES 2895; M 118
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 |
| Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary |
GENERAL NOTES
| Halévy's copies: ll. 1-4=Hal 386, ll. 5-7=Hal 387. RES: "nous ignorons comment les deux fragments se rattachent l'un à l'autre". Corrections by RES. |
TEXT
1 [y]s³q hnmh y[... ...]
2 kl ʾhl Ġtyb w-Ṣhrn ʿ[... ... ... ...]—
3 y bn ḏ-<s¹>ṭr k-s¹ b-ṣ(l)tn w[... ...]
4 ys³q wzʿ-s¹ s²km[..]ws³q wz[ʿ ... ...]
5 hdʾbly ws²[... ...]
6 kl bs²rn w[... ... ... ...]—
7 n l-yhbn k-m[... ...]
| 1 | RES wrongly reads hnhm. |
| 2 | Halévy reads y(l)tyb instead of Ġtyb; ḏ-ʾṭr instead of ḏ-s¹ṭr and b-ẓ(l)tn instead of b-ṣ(l)tn. |
| 3 | Halévy reads wzws¹ instead of wzʿ-s¹. |
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: 134-136 | 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] |