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Stamp seal Erlenmeyer

Text Information

Siglum
Stamp seal Erlenmeyer
Alternative Sigla
Erlenmeyer & Erlenmeyer 1965: esp. 14–16; Garbini 1976: 169–170, B
Transliteration
ʿgdy
Translation
ʿgdy

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Garbini: ʿgḏy for ʿgdy; Sass: ʿgly rather than ʿdgy. DISCUSSION Erlenmeyer & Erlenmeyer 1965: 14–16.
Commentary
Scaraboid, 24 x 18 x 9 mm; material not reported (Sass 1991: 50).

Provenance
Allegedly from Luristan (Sass 1991: 50)
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

  • Garbini, G. Le iscrizioni proto-arabe. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli 36 [N.S. 26], 1976: 165-174.
  • Erlenmeyer, M.L. & Erlenmeyer, H. Frühiranische Stempelsiegel, II . Iranica Antiqua 5, 1965: 1-17, pl. 11.
  • 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
Ex-Erlenmeyer collection
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Dispersed Oasis North Arabian
Old OCIANA ID
#0038294
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