CSNS 1004

Siglum: CSNS 1004
Transliteration: l mlk bn ʾḥwḍ ḏ- ʾl ʿmn w gls¹ mn- wrl s¹nt ngy mk l- rm w wgm ʿl- s¹yd mqtl f h lt ṯʾr mn- qtl -h w wgm ʿl - bn dd- -h ms¹by s¹byt -h ṭyʾ
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Translation: By Mlk son of ʾḥwḍ of the lineage of ʿmn and and he stopped briefly because of a monitor lizard in the year Mk escaped to Roman territory and he grieved for S¹yd who had been killed and so O Lt [grant] revenge on whoever killed him and he grieved for the son of his paternal uncle who is a prisoner captured by [the tribe of] Ṭyʾ
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Language and Script: Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: CSNS: w gl s¹mn "and he collected the fat of a wrl-lizard" w gls¹ mn Macdonald 1992: 39, n. 63: w gls¹ mn- wrl "he halted because of a monitor lizard"; Macdonald 1993: 318, n.100: "and he stopped briefly because of a monitor lizard" Macdonald 1993: 331 and n. 184: s¹nt ngy mk l- rm "the year Mk escaped to Rm"

[CSNS] Clark, V.A. A Study of New Safaitic Inscriptions from Jordan. Thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Melbourne. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1979 [1983].
[NAEN] Macdonald, M.C.A. North Arabian Epigraphic Notes I. Arabian archaeology and epigraphy 3, 1992: 23-43.
[MNH] Macdonald, M.C.A. Nomads and the Ḥawrān in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods: A reassessment of the epigraphic evidence. Syria 70, 1993: 303-413. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda as Article II in M.C.A. Macdonald, Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia, (Variorum Collected Studies Series no. 906), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009].

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