Wasta 1
Text Information
- Siglum
- Wasta 1
- Transliteration
- rbb bn hg bn ẓr ----
- Translation
- Rbb son of Hg son of Ẓr
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The text is carved within a triangle with two palm branches above it. There are other marks within the triangle which may be letters but they are badly damaged.
- Provenance
- On the road between Ṣaidah (Sidon) and Ṣūr (Tyr), about 7 km south of the necropolis of ʿAdlūn. It is an underground sanctuary of the Hellenistic period dedicated to Aphrodite-Astarte.
- Original Reading Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Original Translation Credit
- Ed. pr
- Beaulieu, A. & Mouterde, R. La Grotte d'Astarté à Wasta, [avec un appendice ‘Graffito Safaitique (?)’ par G. Ryckmans]. Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph 27, 1947-1948: 3-20, pl. I-X.
- Site
- “Muġarat al-Garǧ” [?], near Wasṭa and Balād al-Qasmīyah, Lebanon
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0026206
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