SIJ 59

Siglum
SIJ 59
Transliteration
l {m}nʾt bn ʿḏ bn ġṯṯ w nẓr s¹nt ḥrbt ʾl ʿwḏ ʾl ṣbḥ f h ds²r s¹lm w ġnmt
OCIANA
Translation
By Mnʾt son of ʿḏ son of Ġṯṯ and he kept watch the year of the war of the ʾl ʿwḏ and the ʾl Ṣbḥ and so O Ds²r [grant] security and booty
OCIANA
Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
SIJ 59: ġṯ for ġṯṯ. JSafN p. 84 note 13: gnʾt for {m}nʾt. MNH p. 334 and n. 202: on s¹nt ḥrbt ʾl ʿwḏ ʾl ṣbḥ. MNBS p. 111 n. 68: on Knauf and conflicts with the Nabataeans. al-Jallad 2015: 281: By {Mnʾt} son of ʿḏ son of Gṯṯ and he stood guard the year the lineage of ʿwḏ waged war against the lineage of Ṣbḥ, so, O Ds²r, let there be security and spoil.
Commentary
The second letter is invisible on the photograph and could be m or g on Harding's copy. The third name is clearly ġṯṯ on the photograph. Winnett read ḥrb(t) because Harding's original copy has ḥrbh though this passage is only partly visible on the published version. However the t is clear on the photograph with a small much shallower line above it which is what confused Harding.

Editio Princeps
Ed. pr.

  • [JSaf.N] Jamme, A. Safaitic Notes (Commentary on JaS 44-176). [privately printed]. Washington, DC, 1970.
  • [MNBS] Macdonald, M.C.A. Was the Nabataean Kingdom a "Bedouin State"?. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 107, 1991: 102-119. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda, as Article VII in Macdonald, M.C.A., Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia. (Variorum Collected Studies, 906). Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.]
  • [MNH] Macdonald, M.C.A. Nomads and the Ḥawrān in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods: A reassessment of the epigraphic evidence. Syria 70, 1993: 303-413. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda as Article II in M.C.A. Macdonald, Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia, (Variorum Collected Studies Series no. 906), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009].
  • [SIJ] Winnett, F.V. Safaitic Inscriptions from Jordan. (Near and Middle East Series, 2). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1957.
Site
Ǧaṯūm, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0016724
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