Seal Cherkasky

Siglum
Seal Cherkasky
Alternative Sigla
Bron 1988: 440-441, Pittman and Aruz 1987: 75, 80, no. 82
Transliteration
s¹ry
OCIANA
Translation
S¹ry
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dispersed Oasis North Arabian

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Pittman and Aruz: sry(q?) DISCUSSION Pittman & Aruz (1987: 75) commented: "Peripheral Neo-Assyrian linear style 9th-8th century B.C. (possibly inscribed later)', p. 80 'The personal name SRY(Q?) is inscribed in a Proto-Arabian script".
Commentary
Carnelian cylinder seal, 29 x 11 mm (Sass 1991: 43).

Editio Princeps
Bron 1988: 440-441

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Vertical line downwards

  • Bron, F. Sceaux à inscription proto-arabe. II.8 (p.440-441, fig. 5) in P. Bordreuil and E. Gubel (eds.), Bulletin d'antiquités archéologiques du Levant inédites ou méconnues. Syria 65, 1988: 437-445.
  • Pittman, H. & Aruz, J. Ancient Art in Miniature: Near Eastern Seals from the Collection of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art,
  • [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.
Site
Jordan
Current Location
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986.311.58. http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/327261?rpp=30&pg=1&ft=1986.311.58&pos=1
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0038292
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