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as-Sawdāʾ 38 M 293B; RES 3306B
Avanzini 1995: pl.24
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 | 2.3 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary |
GENERAL NOTES
| Engraved on the left side of the stone bearing the inscription as-Sawdāʾ 37. |
TEXT
1 (bn) ḏ-y[..](ḥ)[... ...]
2 frḍ s²wbn[ ... ...]—
3 rʾ b-bytn[ ... ...]—
4 m qrʾn w-l[... ... ... ...]—
5 n-s¹ w-mn ys¹[... ... ... ...]—
6 l yhb ḏby[... ...]
7 qrs³n b-ws²[... ...]
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 125157=1887,0629.25 |
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 28.2, w. 107, th. 18 (related to as-Sawdāʾ 37 + 38) |
| 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
| Pirenne 1956: pl. 23/c | Pirenne, 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: 149-150, pl. 24 | 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] |