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as-Sawdāʾ 85 RES 2928; M 150
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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| Royal inscription | Yes |
GENERAL NOTES
| Halévy's copy. |
TEXT
1 [m]lk Mʿnm w-
2 [Yd]ʿʾb Ġyl[n]
3 mlk Ḥḍrm[t]
4 b-kbr Ḥm[... ...]—
5 t ḏ-Ḥmy[... ...]
| 1-5 | The corrections are suggested by Mordtmann. |
| 1 | The text certainly lacks the first words. |
| 1 | In Halévy's copy: l bdʿnm w. |
| 2 | In Halévy's copy: ʿʾb byl. Müller, David H. read the name of the Ḥaḍramitic king Ydʿʾb Byn , while Wissmann corrects Ydʿʾl Byn. |
| 4 | Uncertain reading of k. |
| 4-5 | A likely restoration is Ḥmʿṯt. |
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 |
CULTURAL NOTES
This text attests a link between the reign of Maʿīn and the reign of Ḥaḍramawt, as seen in other Minaic inscriptions. The reconstruction of the name of the king of Ḥaḍramawt, on the base of Halévy's copy, raises some problems. The first hypothesis, closer to Halévy's transcription, is Ydʿʾb Ġyln. Wissmann corrected it in Ydʿʾl Byn, co-regent of ʾls¹mʿ Ḏbyn, the king who dedicated some building works on the walls of Maʿīn at the time of the king of Maʿīn ʾbydʿ Yṯʿ in the inscription Maʿīn 8.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Avanzini 1995: 203-205 | 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] |
| Mordtmann 1897: 16 | Mordtmann, Johannes H. 1897. Beiträge zur minäischen Epigrafik. (Ergänzungshefte zur Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, 12. Semitistische Studien). Weimar: E. Felber. |
| Müller, David H. 1883: 398-399 | Müller, David H. 1883. Sabäische Inschriften entdeckt und gesammelt von Siegfried Langer, publicirt und erklärt. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 37: 319-421. |
| Wissmann 1976 a: 384-385 | Wissmann, Hermann von 1976. Die Geschichte des Sabäerreichs und der Feldzug des Aelius Gallus. Pages 308–544 in Hildegard Temporini (ed.). Politische Geschichte. (Provinzen und Randvölker: Mesopotamien, Armenien, Iran, Südarabien, Rom und der Ferne Osten). Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase (eds), Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt. Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung. II. 9/1. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter / New York: Walter de Gruyter. |