Seal in the Walters Art Gallery

Text Information

Siglum
Seal in the Walters Art Gallery
Alternative Sigla
Garbini 1976: 170-172, Gordon 1939: 29-30, no. 96
Transliteration
frby
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Translation
Frby
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Language and Script
Dispersed Oasis North Arabian

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Gordon: a possible reading mrby for Frby.
Commentary
Chalcedony cylinder seal, 15 x 8.5 mm (Sass 1991: 49).

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

  • Garbini, G. Le iscrizioni proto-arabe. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli 36 [N.S. 26], 1976: 165-174.
  • Gordon, C.H. Western Asiatic Seals in the Walkers Art Gallery. Iraq 6, 1939: 3-34, pl. 2-15.
  • [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
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 42.827: http://art.thewalters.org/detail/2893/cylinder-seal-with-a-hero-holding-two-beasts-2/
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0038296
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