SHI 24

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 1. Jamme: b[l]ḥn b{n} [... rather than ----{ʾ}b/ḥnb----/; Müller: ...ʾ(?) ḥmbl(?) for ----{ʾ}b/ḥnb----l. Line 2. Jamme: y wḫdb(ʾ) bt[... rather than ----{n}y/w/ḫds¹/bt; TRANSLATION Line 2. bt, Jamme: 'daughter'.
Commentary: A fragment of a Hasaitic inscription on a dressed limestone slab, reused, upside-down, in an inside wall of a house in the modern village of Ṯāǧ, see Dickson, V. 1971: 256–258, who describes it as "of a dark greenish colour, some eighteen inches [= 45 cms] long by ten inches [= 25 cms] wide, and placed about eighteen inches [= 45 cms] from the ground." It is possible that it was a practice piece for apprentice masons. The size of the letters varies considerably and the last letter in line 1 has a shape which is difficult to interpret.

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Gazdar, M.S., Potts, D.T., Livingstone, A. Excavations at Thaj. Atlal 8, 1984: 55-108, pl. 60-90.
[Ja] Jamme, A. Sabaean and Ḥasaean Inscriptions from Saudi Arabia. (Studi semitici, 23). Rome: Università di Roma, Istituto di Studi del Vicino Oriente, 1966.
Müller, W.W. Ein Grabmonument aus Naǧrān als Zeugnis für das Frühnordarabische. Pages 149-157 in R. Degen, W.W. Müller, W. Röllig, Neue Ephemeris für Semitische Epigraphik. 3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1978.
[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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