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as-Sawdāʾ TA 2B
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 | Construction text | ||
| Royal inscription | Yes |
GENERAL NOTES
| The same inscription, with the same decoration, is engraved on the pillar 2 A of the temple, but there is no photo of it. |
TEXT
1 [ʾlmnbṭ] (ʾ)mr (b)→n Lbʾn s¹ḥdṯ
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 ʾlmnbṭ ʾmr son of Lbʾn founded. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Architectural structure » Pillar |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | as-Sawdāʾ |
| Ancient site | Ns²n |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | In situ |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾrnydʿ |
| Notes | Intra muros temple. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach and Audouin 2004: 41,43, figs 21-22 | Arbach, Mounir and Audouin, Rémy 2004. Nouvelles découvertes archéologiques dans le Jawf (République du Yémen). Opération de sauvetage franco-yéménite du site d'as-Sawdâʾ (l'antique Nashshân). Temple intra-muros I. Rapport préliminaire. [Ṣanʿāʾ]: Centre français d'archéologie et de sciences sociales de Ṣanʿāʾ. |
| Robin and Arbach 2004: 32, figs 21, 22 | see Arbach, Audouin and Robin 2004 |
| Rossi 2022: 90-91, 455, fig. 2 | Rossi, 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. |