SHI 32

Siglum
SHI 32
Alternative Sigla
Potts 1990, II: 77, Ja 1044
Transliteration
nfs¹ / w qbr / lḥyh-
n / bn / hnʿbd / bn / ʿ-
{y}ny / ḏ ʾl / s¹ʿdʾl
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Translation
By / son of / Memorial and grave of Lḥyh-
n son of Hnʿbd son of ʿ-
{y}ny of the lineage of S¹ʿdʾl
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Language and Script
Hasaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TRANSLATION Line 1. nfs¹, Jamme followed by Sima: 'Tombstone'. Line 3. ḏ ʾl, Jamme: '(him of) the cl(an) of'; Potts: '(he) of the group of'; Sima: '(he) of the family'.
Commentary
Lines 2, 3. The letter d faces in the opposite direction.

Editio Princeps
Sima 2002: 184

  • 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.
  • [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
ʿAyn Ǧawān, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
Unknown
Subjects
Building, Funerary, Genealogy, Lineage
Old OCIANA ID
#0047098
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