Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago 228759
Text Information
- Siglum
- Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago 228759
- Alternative Sigla
- Stehle 1960: 2
- Transliteration
-
l ḍhdt bn ʿṯmt h- dmyt
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- Translation
-
By Ḍhdt son of ʿṯmt is the drawing
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- Stehle 1960: 2: ʿṣmt for ʿṯmt
- Commentary
- A large roughly oblong slab of basalt, inscribed on one face (46.5 cm x 26 cm across the inscribed face, and between 2 and 19.5 cm thick). The inscribed face is flat but very pitted along most of the top and left side.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Direction of Script
- Curving
- Associated Drawings
- A man on horseback with a spear fighting a naked man on foot with a sword and shield
- [Stehle] Stehle, D. South Arabic Graffiti from Field Museum Collections. Unpublished monograph deposited on microfilm in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Il. under the reference ADI 6419. [unpublished]. 1960.
- Site
- Tall Taida, east of Qaṣr Azraq, Al-Zarqāʾ Governorate, Jordan
- Current Location
- Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (228759)
- Subjects
- Drawing, Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0026105
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16 Sep, 2024
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