SHI 06

Siglum: SHI 06
Alternative Sigla: Potts 1990, II: 76, Carruthers 1922: 322–324, CIH 984a
Transliteration: wgr / {w} [q][b][r]
s²bm / b{n} ----
y / bn / {ʿ}----
ʾnṯt {-h} ----
bnt{ / }----
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Translation: By / son of ---- Tombstone {and} {grave of}
S²bm {son of} ----
y son of {ʿ}----
{his} wife ----
daughter of ----
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Language and Script: Hasaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 1. Sima: [q][b][r] at the end of this line. Line 4. Sima: ʾnṯt for ʾnṯt {-h}. TRANSLATION Line 1. wgr: Carruthers: 'cave'; Potts: 'Monument'. Carruthers considers this inscription and SHI 5, as one text: 'Cave and tomb of Shibām daughter of Luḫay son of W[ahb] whose wife [was] daughter of ----'. Sima confusedCIH 984a and CIH 984b, which is why he made CIH 984b SHI 05 and CIH 984a SHI 06.
Commentary: Despite the apparent similarity of the stone and letter forms, SHI 06 (here) and SHI 05 cannot belong to the same inscription, as Carruthers supposed. The gap between the w in line 1 of SHI 06 and the q (in SHI 05) is too large and the t supposedly of "bnt" in line 2 of SHI 05 is separated from the bn (in SHI 06) by a word-divider. We would assume that a verb has been lost stating that the wgr {w} [qbr] were made for S²bm by his wife.

Carruthers, D. Captain Shakespeare's Last Journey. Geographical Journal 59:5, 1922: 321-344, 401-418.
[CIH] Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum. Pars IV. Inscriptiones Ḥimyariticas et Sabaeas continens. Paris: Reipublicae Typographeo, 1889-1932.
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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