Jar-Pithos from Ḥaǧar Bin Ḥumeid

Siglum
Jar-Pithos from Ḥaǧar Bin Ḥumeid
Alternative Sigla
Boneschi 1958, van Beek 1956: 7-9
Transliteration
khlm
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Translation
Khlm
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Language and Script
Dispersed Oasis North Arabian

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Boneschi: bhm rather than khlm DISCUSSION Albright 1956: 9-10.
Commentary
Pithos, about 60 cm high and with a rim diameter of 36.5 cm., with a monogram in relief (Sass 1991: 33). A possible date of the monogram is the ninth century B.C. (see van den Beek 1956: 9).

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Boustrophedon

  • Albright, W.F. A Note on Early Sabaean Chronology. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 143, 1956: 9-10.
  • Boneschi, P. Le monogramme sud-arabe d'un vase antique à provisions. Rivista degli Studi Orientali 33, 1958: 169-173.
  • [Sass] Sass, B. Studia Alphabetica. On the Origin and Early History of the Northwest Semitic, South Semitic and Greek Alphabets. (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, 102). Freiburg Schweiz: Universitätsverlag / Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 1991.
  • van Beek, G.W. A radiocarbon date for Early South Arabia. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Reasearch 143, 1956: 6-9.
Site
Ḥaǧar bin Ḥumayd, Jordan
Current Location
unknown
Old OCIANA ID
#0038283
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