SHI 28

Siglum: SHI 28
Alternative Sigla: Potts 1990, II: 79, Müller 1988: 626, Potts 1984: 118, Winnett (in Cornwall 1)
Transliteration: wgr / w qbr / ʾ- lyʾ / bn / ʿyny / b- n / s²ṣr / ḏ ʾl / s¹- mm / ḏ ʾl / ḏʾb ḏ ʾl / s²ḏb / g /
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Translation: By / son of / Tombstone and grave of ʾ- lyʾ son of ʿyny son of S²ṣr of the lineage S¹- mm of the lineage of Ḏʾb of the lineage of S²ḏb g
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Language and Script: Hasaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 5. Potts 1990: n rather than g at the end of this line. TRANSLATION: Line 1. wgr w qbr, Potts: 'Monument and tomb'. Lines 3, 4, and 5. ḏʾl, Potts 1990: '(he) of the group of'. Lines 3–5. Winnett (by Cornwall 1), reproduced by Potts 1984: '(he) of the lineage of S¹MM of the clan of DʾL of the tribe of S²awḏab. 30'; Müller: '(he) of the family S¹amam, of the clan Daʾl, from the tribe Schaudhab. 30'; Sima: '(he) of the family S¹mm, of the clan Ḏʾb, of the tribe S²ḏb. G.'
Commentary: The isolated letter g has been interpreted as the number 30 by Winnett. In ASA the letter g means the number 20. It is not certain whether in Hasmaitic has the same sense (Sima 2002: 182).

[Winnett] Cornwall, P.B. Ancient Arabia: Explorations in Hasa, 1940-1941. Geographical Journal 107, 1946: 28-50.
Müller, W.W. Altsüdarabische und frühnordarabische Grab-, Sarkophag-, Votiv- und Bauinschriften. Pages 621-640 in C. Butterweck (ed.), Grab-, Sarg-, Votiv- und Bauinschriften. Religiöse Texte. 4. In Otto Kaiser (ed.), Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments. 2. Gütersloh: Mohn, 1988.
Potts, D.T. Northeastern Arabia in the Later Pre-Islamic Era. Pages 85-144 in R. Boucharlat and J.-F. Salles (eds), Arabie orientale, Mésopotamie, et Iran méridionale de l'age de fer au début de la période islamique. (Réunion de travail, Lyon, 1982, Maison de l'Orient). (Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations, Mémoire, 37). Paris: Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 1984.
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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