Cylinder seal Erlenmeyer

Siglum
Cylinder seal Erlenmeyer
Alternative Sigla
Garbini 1976: 170-171
Transliteration
yfʿ br ygr
Ahmad Al-Jallad
Translation
Yfʿ son of Rygr
Ahmad Al-Jallad
Language and Script
Dispersed Oasis North Arabian

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
Garbini: y----ʿ br ygr rather than yfʿ br ygr. DISCUSSION Erlenmeyer & Erlenmeyer 1965: 14–16.
Commentary
Broken cylinder seal, now 28 x 16 mm; material not reported (Sass 1991: 46).

Editio Princeps
Sass 1991: 46-47

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

  • Erlenmeyer, M.L. & Erlenmeyer, H. Frühiranische Stempelsiegel, II . Iranica Antiqua 5, 1965: 1-17, pl. 11.
  • Garbini, G. Le iscrizioni proto-arabe. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli 36 [N.S. 26], 1976: 165-174.
  • [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
Ex-Erlenmeyer collection, Basel; auctioned at Christie's, London, in late 1989 or early 1990 (Sass 1991: 46).
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0038317
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