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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

NWStL 2

Text Information

Siglum
NWStL 2
Transliteration
l s¹ʿd bn ḥny bn ʿbd bn ṣʿd bn ʿbd bn ʿḏ bn s²rb w wrd h- hṣ qyẓ s¹nt myt h- mlk f qnṭ h- s²nʾ f h gdʿwḏ s¹lm
Translation
By S¹ʿd son of Ḥny son of ʿbd son of Ṣʿd son of ʿbd son of ʿḏ son of S²rb and he came to a watering-place at this bumpy ground [and] he spent the dry season [in] the year the King died and he drove away the enemy and so O Gdʿwḏ [grant] security

Interpretation

Commentary
Carved boustrophedon on one face of a stone.

Provenance
A low cairn approximately 1.5 km due south of the island with Al-Namārah fort and approximately 0.5 km south of the track leading from Al-Namārah to Zalaf going through the Khabrā.
Site
Near Al-Namārah, Syria
Date Found
1995
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0035852
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