SHI 20

Text Information

Siglum
SHI 20
Alternative Sigla
Ja 1047, Ry 688
Transliteration
[w][g][r][ / ][w] [q]br /
----s¹l
----ymn
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Translation
{Tombstone} {and} {grave of}
----s¹l
----ymn
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Language and Script
Hasaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Jamme: [...wq]br rather than [w][g][r][/][w] [q]br/. Line 2. Jamme: [...bn] [bs¹l for ----s¹l. Line 3. Ryckmans: ----dymn for ----ymn; Jamme: [...][ḥ]ymn rather than ----ymn; Sima: ----{ḥ}ymn rather than ----ymn. TRANSLATION Line 1. Ryckmans: 'Monument and tomb'.
Commentary
Measurements: 70 x 34 x 18 cm., letters 19 cm. high (Potts 1990, II: 72).

Editio Princeps
OCIANA

  • [Ja] Jamme, A. Sabaean and Ḥasaean Inscriptions from Saudi Arabia. (Studi semitici, 23). Rome: Università di Roma, Istituto di Studi del Vicino Oriente, 1966.
  • Potts, D.T. The Arabian Gulf in Antiquity. (2 volumes). Oxford: Clarendon, 1990.
  • [Ry] Ryckmans, G. Inscriptions sud-arabes 21ème série [Ry 687-688]. Le Muséon 76, 1963: 419-423.
  • [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.
Site
Ṯāǧ, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
Unknown
Subjects
Building, Funerary
Old OCIANA ID
#0047086
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