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SIJ 323

Text Information

Siglum
SIJ 323
Transliteration
l rfʾt bn ʾnʿm bn rfʾt ḏ- ʾl ḥẓy w rdf h- ʾbl w ḫrṣ
Translation
By Rfʾt son of ʾnʿm son of Rfʾt of the tribe of Ḥẓy and he followed after the camels and was on the look-out

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
MNH p. 319 n. 113: on ʾl ḥẓy writing about their camels.
Commentary
copy missing

Original Reading Credit
Ed. pr.
Original Translation Credit
Ed. pr.

  • Winnett, F.V. Safaitic Inscriptions from Jordan. (Near and Middle East Series, 2). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1957.
  • 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].
Site
Ǧāwā, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Genealogy, Lineage, Watch (keeping)
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0017006
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