Damascus Museum 21039.3

Text Information

Siglum
Damascus Museum 21039.3
Alternative Sigla
AKSJ Damascus Museum 1.2.2
Transliteration
l ns²lt bnt mġṯ w ts²wqt ʾl- ʾlbʾ
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Translation
By Ns²lt daughter of Mġṯ and she longed for ʾlbʾ
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Commentary
The inscription is carved on a limestone bowl with short handles at the base and (broken off) at the rim: diameter at the rim is 16 cms, at the base is 12 cms, and it is 9.5 cms high. The inscription runs above Damascus Museum 21039.1 from the left of the lower handle to just above the name ḫbʾt in Damascus Museum 21039.1, at which point it curls upwards and runs for 4 letters in the opposite direction along the rim. This was probably to avoid bn ys¹lm of Damascus Museum 21039.1, which must therefore have been carved before the present text. Damascus Museum 21039.4 (= AKSJ 1.2.3) begins immediately after the last letter of the present inscription.

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Special Letter Forms
s² zig-zag
Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Curving

Associated Inscriptions
Damascus Museum 21039: 1–2, 4–9 (= AKSJ 1.1-1.1.1; 1.2.1; 1.2.3; 1.3; 1.4; 1.5.1-2)

  • [AKSJ] Abū ʿAssāf, ʿA. Kitābāt ṣafawiyyah ǧadīdah fī matḥafay dimašq wa tadmur. Annales archéologiques arabes syriennes 25, 1975: 141-145, pls 1-4 [Arabic Section].
Site
Possibly between Darʿā and Boṣrā, Darʿā (Daraa) Governorate, Syria
Current Location
Damascus Museum (21039)
Subjects
Genealogy, Women, Yearning
Old OCIANA ID
#0010698
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Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA