Al-Saʿīd 1420/1999: 15–26, no. 2

Siglum: Al-Saʿīd 1420/1999: 15–26, no. 2
Alternative Sigla: Sima 2000: 257–258
Transliteration: nfyh/bn/ʿm/ʾfkl/h- l---- bn{y}/h- bn{y}n/ḏh/l- ʾ{h}lh ʾlh/hrmʿt/f rḍ -h/w s¹ʿ{d} -h/----/l- -h/---- ----/h- mqm ---- ----{t}h/b- hk----
Translation: Nfyh son of ʿm priest of h- L---- built this building for {ʾhlh} the god of H-Rmʿt and so favour him and {help} him ----lh ---- ---- the place ---- ----th b- hk----

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 3. Al-Saʿīd: h- grʿt for h-rmʿt. Line 4. Al-Saʿīd: s¹ʿd -h ----ty----nhs² lh n{b} rather than s¹ʿ{d} -h ---- lh ----. Line 6. Al-Saʿīd: ----nth for ----th; Sima: b{l}k rather than b- hk----. TRANSLATION Line 5. h- rmʿt, Sima: a place name or a temple name referring to the divinity.
Commentary: Note that the final letter in line 1 runs onto the border. It is quite unlike any of the examples of h, or indeed of l, in this text. We have therefore left it unidentified for the present. At the end of line 2 the last three letters are unclear on the photograph but seem to read {h}lh, where the upper part of the first h has been damaged. For the noun bnyn compare Arabic bunyān "a building" (Lane 261b).

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