NSR 20
Text Information
- Siglum
- NSR 20
- Transliteration
- l mnʿm bn ġnm bn mnʿm w qṣṣ ʿr {ʾ}l ybġy ḥwlt dgnt
- Translation
- By Mnʿm son of Ġnm son of Mnʿm and the chief of the ʾl Ybġy took revenge on the Ḥwlt whilst they remained
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- NSR: ʿrṣ---ḥwlt--- for ʿr {ʾ}l ybġy ḥwlt dgnt. HST p. 9: w qṣṣ ʿrṣ??---ḥwlt for the last part. JaS 88: w qṣṣ ʿr ṣly bfyḥ wlt s¹gnt "And ʿr has narrated deceiving about the abundance of herbage. And Lt imprisonment". JMAA III p.113: read as JaS 88.
- Commentary
- The twenty third letter has been read by previous editors as ṣ. It is however clear from the photograph that the original letter was an ʾ and that the circle was added later. If it was added to change the letter into a ṣ then it was a strange way to make the alteration as a more usual form of the letter could have been produced by closing one of the forks of the ʾ. It is possible that the circle is an ʿ which was missed out and added later or, as has been read here, that it is extraneous to the text. There are other letters written next to the letters of the text that are clearly not part of it: a b written next to the m of the first name; two slightly wavy lines next to the n of ġnm; two m's in which the outlines are incomplete on either side of the sixteenth letter; possibly an incomplete ʿ next to the q and the first ṣ of qṣṣ; a q, with a hooked line attached, next to the l of ʾl and a n next to the second ġ. Some of the letters have been embellished, the circles of the y's have been hammered in, and the lines of the second t have been given hooks turning it into a swastika. There are also incised lines of a lighter patina on the surface some of which are wusūm. For ʿr compare Arabic ʿayr - "lord chief" and for dgnt compare Arabic daǧana bi-ʾl-makān - "he remained, dwelt in the place". The lineage name ybġy is new although it is attested as a personal name in WH 231.
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Chiselled
- Associated Signs
- Wasm
- Abdallah, Y.M. Al-nuqūsh al-ṣafawiyya fī maǧmūʿat ǧāmiʿat al-riyāḍ ʿām 1966. M.A.Thesis, American University of Beirut, 1970. [Unpublished]. 1970.
- Site
- On the way to Ġadīr Budaynah, Saudi Arabia
- Date Found
- 1966
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0010350
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