SHI 17

Siglum
SHI 17
Alternative Sigla
Potts 1990, II: 71, 78, Ja 2129
Transliteration
{n}fs¹ / w [q]{b}r / ḫr----
bnt / gmʿt / bn / {ʿ}----
w ws¹l -h / ḥmydt / b[n]
ʿbd / tnyn / ḏ ʾl / bn----
OCIANA
Translation
By / son of / {Memorial} and {grave of} Ḫr----
daughter of Gmʿt son of {ʿ}----
and her relative Ḥmydt {son of}
ʿbd Tnyn of the lineage of Bn----
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Language and Script
Hasaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Jamme: [h]---- rather than ḫr----. Line 3. Jamme: hmydt b[nt] for ḥmydt b[n]; Potts considers both bn and bnt. TRANSLATION Line 1. {n}fs¹, Jamme followed by Sima: 'Tombstone'; [q]{b}r, Potts: 'Tomb'. Line 3. ws¹ l- -h, Potts: 'her parent'. Line 4. ḏ ʾl, Jamme: '(him) of the clan of'; Potts: '(he) of the group of'; Sima: '(he) of the family'. DISCUSSION Line 3. See Sima for bn rather than bnt at the end of this line.
Commentary
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Editio Princeps
OCIANA

  • [Ja] Jamme, A. New Safaïtic and Ḥasaean Inscriptions from Northern Arabia. Sumer 25, 1969: 141-152, pl. 1-3.
  • 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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Ṯāǧ, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
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Unknown
Subjects
Building, Funerary, Genealogy, Lineage, Relatives, Women
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#0047083
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