SHI 04

Siglum: SHI 04
Alternative Sigla: Potts 1990, II: 76, Gazdar et al. 1984: 87, no. 8, Bibby 3
Transliteration: wgr / w {q}[b][r][ / ]----
y{n}{ / }{b}n / s²f----
----qt{ / }----
ḥmʾ----{ / }{b}nt / ----
/ bn / kh{l}n / ʾl----[ / ][ḏ]
ʾl / krw---- wg----
OCIANA
Translation: By / son of / Tombstone and {grave of}
{Yn} {son of} S²f----
----qt----
Ḥmʾ---- {daughter of} ----
son of {Khln} ʾl {of
the lineage of} Krw---- wg----
OCIANA
Language and Script: Hasaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 2. Gazdar et al.: y----n for y{n} {b}n; Potts: s²fh [bn] rather than s²f----. Line 3. Potts: ----qt ʾ[fkl] rather than ----qt----. Line 4. Gazdar et al.: h---- dnt for ḥmʾ---- {b}nt----; Potts: ḥmʾl for ḥm----. Line 5. Gazdar et al.: bn kh---- ʾ---- rather than bn kh{l}n ʾl----[ḏ]; Potts: ʾlw rather than ʾl----. Line 6. Potts: ʾbkrw ---- wḍ---- for ʾl krw---- wg----. TRANSLATION Line 1. Gazdar et al.: 'Grave and tomb'; Potts: 'Monument and tomb'. Line 6. ʾl, Gazdar et al.: 'tribe'; Sima: '(he) of the family'.

[Bibby] Bibby, T.G. Preliminary Survey in East Arabia 1968. With a chapter by H. Kapel entitled "Stone Age Survey". Reports of the Danish Archaeological Expedition to the Arabian Gulf. Volume 2. (Jutland Archaeological Society Publications, 12). Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1973.
Gazdar, M.S., Potts, D.T., Livingstone, A. Excavations at Thaj. Atlal 8, 1984: 55-108, pl. 60-90.
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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