RES 3934

Siglum
RES 3934
Alternative Sigla
Sass 1991: 40, fig. 12–13, Garbini 1976: 172-174, Albright 1952: 39-41, Burrows 1927: 795-799
Transliteration
dnlyzb{g}k
drlśn
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dispersed Oasis North Arabian

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Burrows: dngyzblk for dnlyzb{g}k; RES: dngʾzblk for dnlyzb{g}k; Albright: dnl yzbl k for dnlyzb{g}k; Garbini: dnlyzbḥk rather than dnlyzb{g}k. Line 2. Burrows: drgsn for drlśn; Albright: dr ls²n rather than drlśn. DISCUSSION Roux 1960: 28 and note 45. Woolley 1962: 31, 114, 133. Biggs 1965: 36-37, note 2.
Commentary
Brick fragment, 9 x 8 x ? cm, with incised inscriptions (Sass 1991: 40).

Editio Princeps
Sass 1991: 40

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Boustrophedon (starting from left)

  • Albright, W.F. The Chaldaean Inscriptions in Proto-Arabic Script . Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 128, 1952: 39-45.
  • Biggs, R.D. A Chaldean Inscription from Nippur. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 179, 1965: 36-38.
  • Burrows, E. A New Kind of Old Arabic Writing from Ur. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1927: 795-806.
  • Garbini, G. Le iscrizioni proto-arabe. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli 36 [N.S. 26], 1976: 165-174.
  • [RES] Répertoire d'Épigraphie Sémitique in G. Ryckmans (ed.), Répertoire d'épigraphie sémitique. Publié par la Commission du Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1900–1968. pp 390
  • Roux, G. Recently discovered ancient sites in the Hammar Lake District (southern Iraq). Sumer 16, 1960: 20-31.
  • [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.
  • Woolley, L. Ur Excavations IX: the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods. Publications of the joint expedition of the British Museum and of the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philaldelphia, to Mesopotamia. British Museum Publications, 1962.
Site
Jordan
Current Location
Unknown (Iraq Museum?)
Old OCIANA ID
#0038289
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