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as-Sawdāʾ 52 CIH 440
Avanzini 1995: pls 34-36
Avanzini 1995: pls 34-36
By kind permission of British Museum
By kind permission of British Museum
By kind permission of British Museum
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 3 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| The date is hypothetical. |
TEXT
1 Hʿll
2 [.]byn ʿbd bn(y) [.]←[.]m hqny ʿṯtr ḏ-R←ṣfm (mq)[ṭr](n) Yʿd
3 [y](w)m ʿḏb w-b(r)[ʾ] ←mḥrmn ʾrṯtm yw←m hby[... ...] Ḏmrṯ—
4 ʿ ḏ-Ns²n w-ʾ(b)[... ... ]←wʿ ʿṯtr ḏ-Grb←m w-ḏ Rṣfm w(y)n →
5 ↓yʿs²rn |
6 l-wfy-hw w-
7 (ʾ)ḏn-hw w-mqm-
8 [h]w w-bny-hw
| 1-4 | The lines are inscribed around on the top of the incense burner. |
| 1 | The name is inscribed in relief on a slightly more recessed plan with respect to the following lines, aside the decoration of a bull's head. |
| 2 | the first letter of the proper name could be s³ or s²; we accepted the reading mqṭrn, now illegible on the stone, but perhaps formerly more clear. |
| 4-8 | The lines are inscribed on the front face of the base of the incense burner. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Hʿll 2 [.]byn subject of the banū [.]rm dedicated to ʿṯtr ḏ-Rṣfm the incense burner Yʿd 3 when he repaired and built the temple ʾrṯtm, when Ḏmrṯʿ 4 ḏ-Ns²n and ʾb[... ...]priest of ʿṯtr ḏ-Grbm and ḏ-Rṣfm shared (?) vines 5 to offer tithes 6 for his well being and of 7 his faculty and of his material resources 8 and of his sons. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 125141=1887,0629.21 |
| Support type | Artefact » Incense burner (mqṭr) |
| Shape | With truncated pyramidal base |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 41, w. 22 (at the top), th. 21 |
| 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 |
CULTURAL NOTES
A private dedicated the burner Yʿd for his safety when the temple was restored and when the priests got their tithes from a vine.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Avanzini 1995: 173-177, pls 34-36 | 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] |