Damascus Museum 3083
Text Information
- Siglum
- Damascus Museum 3083
- Alternative Sigla
- RyDamas 6822
- Transliteration
-
l ʿbṯ bn ʿqrb ḏ- ʾl ʾdm w wgm ʿl- ʿm trḥ mḥll
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- Translation
-
By ʿbṯ son of ʿqrb of the lineage of ʾdm and he grieved while camping for ʿm who had perished
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- RyDamas: w wgm ʿl- ʿmt rḥ mḥll "and he placed a sign for ʿmt, he has gone away from the camp" or w wgm ʿl- ʿm trḥ mḥll "and he placed a sign for ʿm. Distress! Liberation!"
- Commentary
- For the interpretation of mḥll see Al-Jallad 2015: 178.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Chiselled & incised
- Direction of Script
- Straight line
- Al-Jallad, A. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
- [BM ME Saf] Ryckmans, G. Inscriptions ṣafaïtiques au British Museum et au Musée de Damas. Le Muséon 64, 1951: 83-91, pls 1-3.
- Site
- Ġazlaniyyah, Syria
- Current Location
- Damascus Museum (3083)
- Subjects
- Camping, Genealogy, Grieving
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0026155
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16 Sep, 2024
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