SHI 38

Siglum: SHI 38
Alternative Sigla: Potts 1990, II: 78, Ja 2970
Transliteration: ----
---- [b][n]{t} / ḥr
---- [ḏ][ʾ][t] ʾl / {ʿ}-
----{w}ḏb
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Translation: ----
---- {daughter of} Ḥr
---- {of the lineage of} {ʿ}-
----{w}ḏb
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Language and Script: Hasaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Jamme restores a big portion of the text. Line 1. Potts: ----t ḥr for ----[b][n]{t} ḥr. Line 2. Potts: ----ʾl ʿ rather than ---- [ḏ] [ʾ][t] ʾl {ʿ}. Line 3. Potts followed by Sima: [wr ḏʾt ʾl s²]wḏb rather than ----{w}ḏb. TRANSLATION Line 3. [ḏ] [ʾ][t] ʾl, Jamme: 'her of the clan of'; '(she) of the group of'; Sima: '(she) of the clan'. DISCUSSION Burkholder (1984: 206) commented: 'Found beside a dry well at Al-Hinnat, this stone had been reused in the well structure. Grooves cut by ropes are visible on the reserve side. The inscription is in the South Arabian script. It has been identified as part of a tombstone, but so few characters remain that translation is limited. The western and southern parts of the Arabian Peninsula have numerous such stones but their occurrence in the Eastern provide is rare'.

Burkholder, G, An Arabian Collection: Artifacts from the Eastern Province. Boulder City, NV : GB Publications, 1984.
[Ja] Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XIV. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1985.
Potts, D.T. The Arabian Gulf in Antiquity. (2 volumes). Oxford: Clarendon, 1990.
[SHI] Sima, A. Die hasaitischen Inschriften. Pages 167-200 in N. Nebes (ed.), Neue Beiträge zur Semitistik. Erstes Arbeitstreffen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Semitistik in der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft vom 11. bis 13. September 2000 an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. (Jenaer Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient, 5). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2002.

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