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as-Sawdāʾ 40 B 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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GENERAL NOTES
| A close examination of the stone has revealed that after the l. 7 of as-Sawdāʾ 40 A there is the beginning of a second text. The two parts were usually considered as one inscription. |
TEXT
1 | mlkh Mʿn k-ʾyhn yns²ʾ w-yṯb ʾbkrb w-ʾs¹d yns²ʾ w-(y)ṯb ʿm-s¹ bn Mʿ(n) [... ...]
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] |