SIJ 85

Siglum: SIJ 85
Transliteration: l ʾnʿm bn ġyr bn bdbl bn ġnṯ bn ʾnʿm bn ġnṯ w ḏkr ʾḫ -h bdbl f h s²ʿhqm s¹lm w wgd s¹fr ʾb -h f bʾs¹ mẓll w ngʿ ʿl- zbd bn qdmʾl h- {ʾ}t{y}
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Translation: By ʾnʿm son of Ġyr son of Bdbl son of Ġnṯ son of ʾnʿm son of Ġnṯ and he remembered his brother Bdbl and so O S²ʿhqm may he be secure and he found the inscription of his father and those who remain despair and he grieved in pain for Zbd son of Qdmʾl h- {ʾ}t{y}
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Language and Script: Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: SIJ 85: bd(r)l for bdbl on both occasions; f ---- bʾs¹ for f bʾs¹; omits everything after mẓll. SIAM I p. 101: bdbl on both occasions
Commentary: The letters r and b are clearly distinguished in this text and there is no reason to emend bdbl to bd(r)l see the discussion in SIAM I p. 101. The photographs (Winn H5/II 7 and IV 32) show that nothing has been lost between the f and bʾs¹. The last part of the text, which Winnett did not read, is in very small letters. The antepenultimate sign could be a ṣ or a ʾ and the final one a y, m or g.

[SIAM] Macdonald, M.C.A. Safaitic Inscriptions in the Amman Museum and Other Collections I. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 23, 1979: 101-119, pls. 35-44.
[SIJ] Winnett, F.V. Safaitic Inscriptions from Jordan. (Near and Middle East Series, 2). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1957.

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