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
OCIANA
- 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
- OCIANA
- 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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16 Sep, 2024
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