Seal Ward fig. 1211

Siglum
Seal Ward fig. 1211
Alternative Sigla
Sass 1991: 53-54, Albright 1952: 42, note 12, Ward 1920: 115, no. 269
Transliteration
ʾdlbs²
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Translation
ʾdlbs²
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Language and Script
Dispersed Oasis North Arabian

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Albright: s²bldʾ rather than ʾdlbs². DISCUSSION Garbini 1976: 171.
Commentary
Carnelian cylinder seal, 18 x 7 mm (Sass 1991: 53). The reading s²bldʾ should not be excluded.

Editio Princeps
Sass 1991: 53-54

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

  • Albright, W.F. The Chaldaean Inscriptions in Proto-Arabic Script . Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 128, 1952: 39-45.
  • Garbini, G. Le iscrizioni proto-arabe. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli 36 [N.S. 26], 1976: 165-174.
  • [Sass] Sass, B. Studia Alphabetica. On the Origin and Early History of the Northwest Semitic, South Semitic and Greek Alphabets. (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, 102). Freiburg Schweiz: Universitätsverlag / Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 1991.
  • [Seal-Ward] Ward, W.H. The seal cylinders of Western Asia. (Carnegie Institution of Washington Publications, 100). Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington , 1910.
  • Ward, W.H. Cylinders and other Ancient Oriental Seals in the Lbirary of J. Pierpoint Morgan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920.
Site
Jordan
Current Location
Lost (?) (Sass 1991: 53)
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0036505
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