SHI 36

Siglum
SHI 36
Alternative Sigla
Potts 1990, II: 77, Ja 2125
Transliteration
nfs¹ / {w} qbr ----
{b}nt / lḥy / {b}{n} ----
[ḏ]ʾt / ʾl / s¹----
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Translation
By / son of ---- Memorial {and} grave of ----
{daughter of} Lḥy {son of} ----
{she of} the lineage of S¹----
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Language and Script
Hasaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TRANSLATION Line 1. nfs¹, Sima: 'Tombstone'. Lines 1–3. Jamme 1996: 'Tombstone {and} grave of the daughter of Laḥay Ba{n}[ay] [h]er of the clan of Sa[..]'; Jamme 1970: 'Tombstone {and} grave of the daughter of Laḥay Bayn] {he}r of the clan of Saʿ[d]'.
Commentary
The photograph is among those taken by the late Professor Maḥmūd al-Ghūl on his visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1966.

Editio Princeps
OCIANA

  • Gazdar, M.S., Potts, D.T., Livingstone, A. Excavations at Thaj. Atlal 8, 1984: 55-108, pl. 60-90.
  • [Ja] Jamme, A. New Ḥasaean and Sabaean Inscriptions from Saudi Arabia. Oriens Antiquus 6, 1967: 181-187, pl. 47-49.
  • [Ja] Jamme, A. The Pre-Islamic Inscriptions of the Riyâdh Museum. Oriens Antiquus 9, 1970: 115-139.
  • 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.
Site
Al-Qaṭīf, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Date Found
August 1966
Current Location
National Museum, Riyadh (Riyadh Museum 9 (in Jamme 1970: 124))
Subjects
Building, Funerary, Genealogy, Lineage, Women
Old OCIANA ID
#0039735
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