SIJ 100
Text Information
- Siglum
- SIJ 100
- Transliteration
-
l {ġ}yr bn bdbl w ḫyṭ w wgd s¹fr ʾbgr w ngʿ ---- f h bʿls¹mn rwḥ
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- Translation
-
By Ġyr son of Bdbl and he was on a journey and he found the inscription of ʾbgr and he grieved in pain ---- and so O Bʿls¹mn [grant] relief from adversity and uncertainty
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- SIJ 100: bdrl for bdbl; does not read w ngʿ; w ḫyṭ "and he threaded his way through"; SIAM I p. 102: bdbl
- Commentary
- On the photograph w ngʿ can be made out curving back from ʾbgr. However what follows is unclear as its it relationship with the invocation.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- [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.
- Site
- Ǧaṯūm, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0016771
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Updated
16 Sep, 2024
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OCIANA,. 'SIJ 100.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/11720. Accessed: 29 Aug, 2025.