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as-Sawdāʾ 40 A M 302; RES 3318
By kind permission of British Museum
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 | Legal text |
GENERAL NOTES
| A close examination of the stone has revealed that after l. 7 there is the beginning of a second text (as-Sawdāʾ 40 B). The two parts were usually considered as one inscription. |
TEXT
1 (h)n b-ḏ-ʾbhy b-ʾrbʿ w-s¹bʿ w-s¹ʾr ymhn ḏ{l} ngw k-s¹ b-ṣlwtn hnmh ʾwl-ʾ(y)
2 s¹tyh ʿwd mlkn bn ḏ-whb ḏ-rbʿ s²(y)mn ʾḫr-bn ḏ-ngw k-s¹ b-ṣlwtn hnmh [ḏ]
3 | ngw k-s¹ (b)-ṣlwt Wtrʾl b-byth ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍ b-ḥḏyth-s¹ w-ʾḥly-mʾy ṭbnh Mʿ—
4 n ḥḏyt mḥrh s¹mʿ ḏ-Kyln w-Nḍf w-wfy-mʾy ftḥ ftḥ b-ṯwrh s²lṯ ʾḥly(m)
5 b-ḥḏyt(h)-s¹ w-ʾḥl-mʾy s²ymhy w-ṭbnh Mʿn w-(s²r)k m(lk)n w-Mʿn ʾ(r)y (G)ndn bn [mn]—
6 wt b-wr(f qdmn kbr)-s¹ s¹mʿm (mnwt b)-(wr)*ḫ* (Yḥmʾl) (bn) (Krb)( ḏ)-(K)*y*(ln)( w)-(hry)[... ...]
7 [... ...]
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Thus, in ḏ-ʾbhy on the forth and on the seventh and on the extant days what was announced in the legal appeal whatever one time 2 ? of the king from what was granted as the forth part of the Patron deity following to what was announced for him in the legal appeal; whatever 3 was announced in the legal appeal of Wtrʾl in the temple of ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍ according to the directive and the goods of the Ṭbn of Maʿīn 4 according to the directive of the edict which was supervised by ḏ-Kyln and Nḍf; and the guarantees of the judicial decision which was made in relation to the taxation on a third of the goods 5 according to the directive and the goods of the Patron deity and of the Ṭbn of Maʿīn; then agreed (on all this) the king and Maʿīn and the major representatives of Gndn of the clergy 6 in the first year of his kabirate, the notary was the clergy in the month of Yḥmʾl son of Krb ḏ-Kyln [... ...] 7 [... ...] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 125113=1887,0629.19 |
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 26, w. 88 |
| 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
| Avanzini 1995: 152-157, pl. 26 | 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] |