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SW-BA/I/2
Avanzini 2011: fig. 113
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 | ||
| Measure of letters | 4.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text | ||
| Royal inscription | Yes |
GENERAL NOTES
| See SW-BA/I/1. |
TEXT
1 ʾbʾmr Ṣdq bny-byt ʿṯtr
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 ʾbʾmr Ṣdq built the temple of ʿṯtr. |
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 ʿṯtr ḏ-Rṣf |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Breton 1992 b: 441 | Breton, Jean-François 1992. Le sanctuaire de ʿAthtar dhû-Riṣâf (République du Yémen). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres: 429-453. |
| Avanzini 1995: 15, pl. 6 | 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] |
| Breton 1996: 99 | Breton, Jean-François 1996. Quelques dates pour l'archéologie sudarabique. Pages 87-110 in Christian J. Robin and Iwona Gajda (eds). Arabia Antiqua. Early Origins of South Arabian States. Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Conservation and Exploitation of the Archaeological Heritage of the Arabian Peninsula held in the Palazzo Brancaccio, Rome, by IsMEO on 28th-30th May 1991. Rome: Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente. |
| Avanzini 2011: 49, fig. 113 | Avanzini, Alessandra 2011. Les inscriptions. (Chapitre 4). Pages 43-55 in Jean-François Breton (ed.). Le sanctuaire de ʿAthtar dhû-Riṣâf d'as-Sawdâʾ. (Arabia Antica, 7). Rome: «L'Erma» di Bretschneider. |
| Rossi 2022: 88 | 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. |