SHI 18

Siglum: SHI 18
Alternative Sigla: Potts 1990, II: 79, RES 4685, Ry 155
Transliteration: wgr / w qb-
r / ʾws¹hn-
ʾlt / bn / s¹-
ʿd / bn / ġs¹-
nt / ḏ ʾl / yd-
ʿb / ḏ ʾl / s²-
wḏb
OCIANA
Translation: By / son of / Tombstone and grave
of ʾws¹hn-
ʾlt son of S¹-
ʿd son of Ġs¹-
nt of the lineage of Yd-
ʿb of the lineage of S²-
wḏb
OCIANA
Language and Script: Hasaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 2. Potts: word-divider between ws¹ and hn. TRANSLATION Line 1. wgr, Ryckmans: 'Monument'. Lines 1–2. wgr w qbr, Potts: 'Monument and tomb'. Line 5, 6: ḏʾl, Potts: 'of the group of'. Lines 5–7. Ryckmans followed by Sima: '(he) of the clan of Ydb, of the tribe of S²wḏb'. DISCUSSION Jamme 1971: 69–70.
Commentary: RES: classified as Lihyanite.

Dickson, H.R.P. & Dickson, V.P. Thaj and Other Sites. Iraq 10, 1948: 1-8, pl. I-II.
[JMAA II] Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe II. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1971.
Potts, D.T. The Arabian Gulf in Antiquity. (2 volumes). Oxford: Clarendon, 1990.
[RES] Répertoire d'Épigraphie Sémitique in G. Ryckmans (ed.), Répertoire d'épigraphie sémitique. Publié par la Commission du Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1900–1968.
[Ry] Ryckmans, G. Inscriptions sud-arabes 4ème série [XV-XVIII, Ry 155-202]. Le Muséon 50, 1937: 239-268.
[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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