Jar from Tell al-Ḫulayfa

Siglum
Jar from Tell al-Ḫulayfa
Alternative Sigla
Boneschi 1968: 209-214, Boneschi 1961: 213-223
Transliteration
l bḥy
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Translation
By Bḥy
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Language and Script
Dispersed Oasis North Arabian

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Boneschi: s¹l ḥd rather than l- bḥy. DISCUSSION Glueck 1938: 16–17. Ryckmans 1939. Sass 1991: 35–36.
Commentary
Jar, 59 cm. high, with an inscription incised on the shoulder after firing (Sass 1991: 35). The letter l is incised above the letter b and the letter ḥ above the letter y. The jar is from the late eighth century and it was considered as proto-Dedanite by Albright (1952: 44).

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

  • Albright, W.F. The Chaldaean Inscriptions in Proto-Arabic Script . Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 128, 1952: 39-45.
  • Boneschi, P. Les monogrammes sud-arabes de la Grande Jarre de Tell el-Ḫeleyfeh (Ezion-Geber). Rivista degli Studi Orientali 36, 1961: 213-223.
  • Boneschi, P. Encore à propos des monogrammes sud-arabes de la Grande Jarre de Tell el-Ḫeleyfeh. Rivista degli Studi Orientali 43, 1968: 209-214.
  • Glueck, N. The First Campaign at Tell el-Kheleifeh (Ezion-Geber). Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 71, 1938: 3-17.
  • Ryckmans, G. Un fragment de jarre avec caractères minéens à Tell el-Kheleyfeh. Revue Biblique 48, 1939: 247-249, Pl. VI.
  • [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.
Site
Tall al-Ḫulayfah, Jordan
Current Location
Rockefeller Museum Jerusalem (formerly Palestine Archaeological Museum 40.594)
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0038315
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OCIANA. 'Jar from Tell al-Ḫulayfa.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/20566. Accessed: 22 Jun, 2025.