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Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

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as-Sawdāʾ 46 RES 2889; M 114


By kind permission of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
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By kind permission of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
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Avanzini 1995: pl.31/a

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision

TEXT

marker


   1  Ṣdq

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositWien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Sem 32
Support typeArtefact » Stela » Stela with eyes or stylized face
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 23, w. 15
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteas-Sawdāʾ
Ancient siteNs²n
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī al-Buhayra
CountryYemen
Archaeological contextFunerary context
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Pirenne 1956: pl. 9/cPirenne, Jacqueline 1956. Paléographie des inscriptions sud-arabes. Contribution à la chronologie et à l'histoire de l'Arabie du sud antique. (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België. Klasse der letteren, 26). Brussels: Paleis der Academiën.
Avanzini 1995: 163, pl. 31/aAvanzini, 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: 173Rossi, 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.