ZeGA 18
Text Information
- Siglum
- ZeGA 18
- Transliteration
- l mnʿm bn qym bn mnʿm ḏ- ʾl ḥbq w ḫrṣ h- s¹nt f h bʿls¹mn ʿwr l- ḏ yʿwr h- s¹fr
- Translation
- By Mnʿm son of Qym son of Mnʿm of the lineage of Ḥbq and he kept watch this year and so O Bʿls¹mn blind whoever scratches out the writing
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- ZeGA: w ḫrṣ h- s¹nt "and he was looking out for the (new) year
- Provenance
- Jabal al-ʿArab
- Original Reading Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Chiselled
- Zeinaddin, H. Safaitische Inschriften aus dem Ǧabal al-ʿArab. Damaszener Mitteilungen 12, 2000: 265-289, pls 58-69.
- Site
- In the valley of the villages of Ṭarbā and al-Kusayb, approximately 2 km east of Ṭarbā and approximately 1 km north of al-Kusayb, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria
- Date Found
- 1997
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Curse, Deity, Genealogy, Lineage, Watch (keeping)
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0018615
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