Seal from the ex-Moore Collection

Siglum
Seal from the ex-Moore Collection
Alternative Sigla
Bron 1985: 340, Bron 1977: 239, Gelb, apud Eisen 1940: 83, no. 97, Eisen 1940: 54, no. 97
Transliteration
mnl
OCIANA
Translation
Mnl
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dispersed Oasis North Arabian

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
DISCUSSION Gelb followed by Sass: mnl hypocoristicon of mnʾl.
Commentary
Carnelian cylinder seal, 24 x 10 mm. Style of the eighth-seventh centuries (Sass 1991: 47).

Editio Princeps
Gelb, apud Eisen 1940: 83

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

  • Bron, F. Nouvelles inscriptions proto-arabes. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli 37 [N.S. 27], 1977: 237-240.
  • Bron, F. Sur quelques sceaux à légendes sudarabiques et proto-arabes. Syria 62, 1985: 337-341.
  • Eisen, G.A. Ancient Oriental Cylinder and Other Seals with a Description of the Collection of Mrs. William H. Moore. (Oriental Institute Publications, 47). Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
  • [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, L55.49.80 (on loan from the Moore Collection) (Sass 1991: 47).
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0038295
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