Seal Munich
Text Information
- Siglum
- Seal Munich
- Alternative Sigla
- Bron 1988: 440, Bron 1977: 237, Brandt 1968: 35, no. 118
- Transliteration
-
ybḥʾl
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- Translation
-
Ybḥʾl
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- Language and Script
- Dispersed Oasis North Arabian
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- DISCUSSION Brandt 1968: 35.
- Commentary
- Agate scaraboid, 24 x 19 x 12 mm. The seal was commissioned in the eighth–seventh centuries (or perhaps as early as the ninth) (Sass 1991: 59–60).
- Editio Princeps
- Bron 1977: 237
- Technique
- Incised
- Direction of Script
- Horizontal line right to left
- Brandt, E. Antike Gemmen in deutschen Sammlungen. 2 Bde. Band I: Staatliche Münzsammlung München, Teil 1: Griechische Gemmen von minoischer Zeit bis zum späten Hellenismus. Munich: Prestel, 1968.
- Bron, F. Nouvelles inscriptions proto-arabes. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli 37 [N.S. 27], 1977: 237-240.
- 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.
- [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
- Staatliche Münzsammlung, Munich, A. 1351 (Sass 1991: 59)
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0038300
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