SIJ 263

Siglum: SIJ 263
Transliteration: l mr bn qnʾlh bn qḥs² w (r)ḥḍ h- nʿm w rʿy h- ʾbl [w] [ḫ]r(ṣ) f h l[t] ----(ḥ)nn
OCIANA
Translation: By Mr son of Qnʾlh son of Qḥs² and he washed the sheep and pastured the camels and he was on the look out and so O Lt [grant] mercy
OCIANA
Language and Script: Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: SadF p. 44: w rḥḍ h- nʿg - wa ġasala an-niʿæj; ḫrṣ - qaddama MNH p. 319 n. 114: on keeping both sheep and camels; w {r}ḥḍ h- nʿm w rʿy h ʾbl - and he washed the sheep and pastured the camels.
Commentary: The facsimile published in SIJ is more complete than Harding's copy which it purports to represent and Winnett does not explain the origin of the additions. The reading above is based on the copy in Harding's notebook.

[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.

Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA