SDh 1
Text Information
- Siglum
- SDh 1
- Transliteration
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ḥgb gʿmʾ
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Translation
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Ḥgb (son of) Gʿmʾ
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Language and Script
- Dhofari 1a
Interpretation
- Commentary
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ḥgb: This likely reflects ḥigāb 'cover', a common Arabic name but attested only once in ANA, in Safaitic ISB 51.
gʿmʾ: The root gʿm is attested as a tribe name in Hismaic, CH.07-0001-02.11, and once as a personal name in Safaitic, C 1991. The final ʾ could reflect the pattern faʿlāʾ; indeed, the feminine term gamʿāʾ is attested in Arabic but not as a personal name. The name gaʿmūm is attested on Soqotra today. There is a Jabal Jaʿam in the Jinahah region of the Sanʿāʾ governorate. There is a small circle following the ʾ, which might be interpreted as a r or, more likely, a flaw on the stone.
If the interpretation of this text as comprising a genealogy of names without the word for 'son' is correct, then it would be the first instance of this phenomenon in the Dhofari inscriptions, although it is a well-represented pattern in the Himaitic corpus.
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Editio Princeps
- Jansen van Rensburg et al. 2018
- Field Collector
- J. Jansen van Rensburg
- Technique
- Carved
- Direction of Script
- Left to right
- [SDh] Jansen van Rensburg, J., Al-Orqbi, A. S. A., & Salem, E. M. A. Documenting a threatened rock art site on Soqotra, Yemen. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 29, 2018: 1-11.
- Site
- SHP_067 , Socotra, Yemen
- Date Found
- 2018
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
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