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as-Sawdāʾ 75 RES 2902; M 126
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 |
GENERAL NOTES
| Halévy's copy. As far as the chronology of the text is concerned, Avanzini 1995 suggests the last centuries BC, when both the title "mlk Ns²n" and the typical Minaic suffixes in -h (bynht-s¹m) are possible. |
TEXT
1 mlk Ns²n w-ḏ-ʾtmr[t]((w-ḏʾt-Mr[t]))
2 [... ...]t(ḏ)w ʾs¹dm bynht-s¹[m]
3 w-Byḥn w-b-ḏt[ ... ...]
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: 194-196 | 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] |