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as-Sawdāʾ 36 Ry 25; M 140; RES 2918


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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Measure of letters3.3
Chronology
PeriodB
Textual typologyLegal text - fragmentary

TEXT

marker


   1  [... ...]mrm w-ṯmnm btʿ ʾw s¹kr w-ṯmr-s¹ w-ḥly w-ʿ(t)[... ...]
   2  [... ...]w-mḏḫr rḍwm ḏbḥn (w)-ḏn b-ybhṯ ḏ-bytn qdmn ṯny ʿẓmny [... ...]
   3  [... ...](ẓ)l[n ʿ]d rṣfn ʿẓm /1/ w-(ʾ)rbʿt ḫs³f w-l ys¹tḥwn w-mhn ys¹trf[... ...]
   4  [... ...] k-ḏ bytn w-k bʿl ḏ-yḏbḥ fq kl-s¹m w-kl mḏḫrn w-[... ...]
   5  [... ... ](ms¹k)-s¹[ ..]m bʿl-(s¹ ḏ)-(y)ḏbḥ-s¹ w-s¹ʾr ṯmnn k-s¹m wḏnm[... ...]

Apparatus
3The ʾ of ʾrʿb is written as a s¹.
5At the beginning, reading by G. Mazzini.

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositLondon, The British Museum, BM 125168=1887,0629.20
Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 27, w. 91.5, th. 9.4
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteas-Sawdāʾ
Ancient siteNs²n
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī al-Buhayra
CountryYemen
Notes"Cinq lignes hors de la ville" (Halévy).
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927: 188Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Première série. Le Muséon, 40: 161-200.
Pirenne 1956: pl. 23/ePirenne, 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: 140-143, pl. 21Avanzini, 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]