CSNS 1008

Siglum
CSNS 1008
Transliteration
l mṭl bn ʿbdlh w gls¹ mn- bqr
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Translation
By Mṭl son of ʿbdlh and he halted on account of an oryx
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
CSNS: gl s¹mn for gls¹ mn. NAEN I p. 39 n. 63: w gls¹ mn bqr "and he halted because of cattle" MNH p. 318 n.100: w gls¹ mn bqr "and he halted briefly because of oryx".

Editio Princeps
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Associated Remains
Cairn

  • [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].
Site
CSNS Site P (Qāʿ Abū al-Ḥuṣayn), Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0015945
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