SIJ 288+289

Siglum: SIJ 288+289
Transliteration: l bdbl bn mnʾ bn rfʾt bn nẓmt bn ʿwḏ bn ġṯ bn kʿmh bn ṣbḥ bn {ẓ}w{ġ}{m} bn ḥẓy ---- bn whbʾl w dṯʾ {h-} ʿrḍ ----ʾmlḥ f h lt w ds²r s¹lm l- ḏ ʿnd w ʿwr ḏ ʿwr h- tll
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Translation: By Bdbl son of Mnʾ son of Rfʾt son of Nẓmt son of ʿwḏ son of Ġṯ son of Kʿmh son of Ṣbḥ son of Ẓwġm son of Ḥẓy ---- son of Whbʾl. And he spent the season of the later rains in {this} valley ---- and so O Lt and Ds²r, [grant] security to him who is far away but blind him who effaces the words
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Language and Script: Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: SIJ reads 288 and 289 separately. Bdrl for Bdbl; s¹lmt for nẓmt; ktmh for kʿmh; nhg for {ẓ}w{ġ}{m}; w d{ṯ}{ʾ}{h}{w} r{d}---- for w dṯʾ {h} ʿrḍ ----ʾmlḥ; mrd for ʿnd; h- ḫṭ for for h-tll. MRSIJ p. 180: Read as one text; w ʾmlḥ
Commentary: The published facsimile is an incomplete and inaccurate rendering of Harding's hand-copy. The fourth name can be seen to be nẓmt on the photograph. The seventh is not entirely clear on the photograph but is closer to the kʿmh of Harding's original copy than to Winnett's reading ktmh. The ninth is extremely difficult and the eleventh is impossible to read on the photograph. For the narrative Harding's copy has wdʾhbʿrḍtʾfhrʾmḥl but on the photograph this looks more like w dṯʾ {h-} ʿrḍ. The letters immediately after this are impossible to read on the photograph with any certainty but the final signs before the invocation are certainly ʾmlḥ not ʾmḥl.

[MRSIJ] Milik, J.T. [Review of Winnett 1957 (SIJ)]. Syria 37, 1960: 178-181.
[SIJ] Winnett, F.V. Safaitic Inscriptions from Jordan. (Near and Middle East Series, 2). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1957.

Current Location: In situ
Subjects: Curse, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Season, Topographic features
Old OCIANA ID: #0016971
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