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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

NSR 36

Text Information

Siglum
NSR 36
Transliteration
l {s¹}ʿd bn ----
Translation
By {s¹}ʿd son of ----

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
NSR: l s¹ʿd bn --
Commentary
It is likely this is practice text or written by someone who was unfamiliar with the alphabet. There is a dot between the first and second letter but it is probably a stray hammer mark. The s¹ is in the shape of a V facing vertically in which the two lines are incompetently joined. The d seems to have been formed by inscribing a vertical and a horizontal stroke first which have then been clumsily joined together to form a loop. There are three hammered dots below the bn and then some larger hammered marks which were probably an attempt to continue the text.

Original Reading Credit
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Original Translation Credit
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Technique
Direct ham. & chiselled

  • Abdallah, Y.M. Al-nuqūsh al-ṣafawiyya fī maǧmūʿat ǧāmiʿat al-riyāḍ ʿām 1966. M.A.Thesis, American University of Beirut, 1970. [Unpublished]. 1970.
Site
In Ġadīr Budaynah on the slopes of the nearby hillside of Ruṣayfah [?], Saudi Arabia
Date Found
1966
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0010372
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