SIJ 78

Siglum
SIJ 78
Transliteration
l mty bn ḫzn w mrd ʿl- rm s¹nt ʾty h- mḏy bṣry f h lt s¹lm
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Translation
By Mty son of Ḫzn and he rebelled against the Romans the year the Persians came to Boṣrā and so O Lt may he be secure
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
Winnett 1951: 50–51 comment Rodinson 1959: 216: comment CSNS pp. 89–90: comment Knauf 1984: 219 and n. 3; 222 and n. 20: comment MNH p. 330: on rm in the Safaitic inscriptions. al-Jallad 2015: 281: By Mty son of Ḥzn and he rebelled against Rome the year the Persians came to Bosrā, so, O Lt, let there be security.

Editio Princeps
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Associated Inscriptions

  • [CSNS] Clark, V.A. A Study of New Safaitic Inscriptions from Jordan. Thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Melbourne. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1979 [1983].
  • [KnAM] Knauf, E.A. Als die Meder nach Bosra Kamen. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 134, 1984: 219-225.
  • [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].
  • Rodinson, M. [Review of Winnett 1957 (SIJ)]. Arabica 6, 1959: 214-220.
  • Winnett, F.V. An Epigraphical Expedition to North-Eastern Transjordan. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 122, 1951: 49-52.
  • [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
#0016749
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