This portrait is inscribed with the #Sabaic name 𐩱𐩥𐩪𐩲𐩻𐩩 (read right to left) ʔWS¹ʕṮT, probably to be vocalized something like ʔawš-ʕaθt. It means 'gift of Athtar'. 🗿

ḥ-b-b The common Semitic root which conveys the meaning of love. In Hebrew this root was largely supplanted by the root אהב (ʔhb), but it still exists in 1 verse of the Tanakh and occasionally in the Talmud, and also probably in the name of the brother-in-law of Moses, although he was a Midianite. Modern Hebrew has also borrowed the word حبيبي (ḥabeebi) meaning “my beloved” from Arabic as חביבי with the enclitic pronoun retained. Arabic حَبَّ (ḥabba) Phoenician 𐤇𐤁 (ḥ b) Syriac ܚܰܒ݂ (ḥ b) Akkadian ḫabābu Safaitic 𐪑𐪂𐪈𐪈 (ʔ ḥ b b) Sabaic 𐩣𐩢𐩨𐩨𐩩 (m ḥ b b t) Mehri ḥəb Hebrew חָבַב (ḥabab) Ge'ez ተሐበበ (täḥäbäbä)

"love" in Semitic languages 💚

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