Damascus Museum 17749.1

Text Information

Siglum
Damascus Museum 17749.1
Alternative Sigla
AKSD 3.1
Transliteration
l {b}----{t} w s²lʾ----qtl -h fhw----{y}{ʿ}
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Translation
By {b}----{t} and s²lʾ---- killed him fhw----{y}{ʿ}
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
AKSD: l s¹ʿdh w s²kʾ qtl -h f hwy g ? or b h n ḏ respectively for the s¹ d k and h in the first name.
Commentary
The inscription is chiselled into the crust of one side of a fragment of tabular flint broken on all edges. The reading is based on the assumption that the letters are part of a single inscription carved boustrophedon, but this, of course, is unprovable. Damascus Museum 17749.2 (= AKSD 3.2) is on the other side of this piece.

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Chiselled
Direction of Script
Curving

Associated Inscriptions
Damascus Museum 17749.2 (= AKSD 3.2)

  • [AKSD] Abū ʿAssāf, ʿA. Kitābāt ʿarabiyyah ṣafawiyyah ǧadīdah fī al-matḥaf al-waṭanī bi-dimašq. Annales archéologiques arabes syriennes 23, 1973: 201-212, pls 1-4 [Arabic section].
Site
Mudaysīs c. 35 km south-east of Tanf, Ḥimṣ (Ḥomṣ) Governorate, Syria
Date Found
1966
Current Location
Damascus Museum (17749)
Subject
Query (subject uncertain)
Old OCIANA ID
#0010686
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Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA