AAEK 388

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Siglum
AAEK 388
Alternative Sigla
ASFF 291, QZMJ 441
Transliteration
[[l]][[y]] l zhrn bn ys¹lm ḏ- ʾl gr w wgm ʿl- ġṯ w l- -h [h-] ʾnfs¹
Michael C.A. Macdonald
Translation
By Zhrn son of Ys¹lm of the lineage of Gr and he grieved for Ġṯ and for him are [the] funerary monuments
Michael C.A. Macdonald
Language and Script
Safaitic 1

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus

AAEK 388: w [ʿ]l hnʾ f h lt s¹lm for w l- -h [h-] ʾnfs¹

Commentary

It appears that the author (or a predecssor) carved the letters l y just before where the text begins and then scrtatched them over. There is short line in the same technique as the inscription at right angles to the l- of l- -h which seems to be extraneous to the text. To the right of it khl (AAEK 388.2) is scratched much more lightly than the other texts on this stone. It is probable that the definite article (h-) before ʾnfs¹ has been assimilated to the enclitic pronoun -h immediately before it. After the s¹ of ʾnfs¹, the letters l wly are probably a different inscription (AAEK 388.1) since they are carved in a different technique.

Michael C.A. Macdonald

Editio Princeps
AAEK
Field Collector
ʿAbdallāh as-Sirḥān

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Curving boustrophedon

  • [AAEK] Al-Manāsīr [Al-Manaser], A.Y.Kh. Ein Korpus neuer safaitischer Inschriften aus Jordanien. (Semitica et Semitohamitica Berolinensia, 10). Aachen: Shaker, 2008.
  • [QZMJ] Previously unpublished Safaitic inscriptions recorded by H. Al-Qudrah, M. Al-Zuʿbī, and S.A. Al-Maʿānī
  • [ASFF] Previously unpublished Safaitic inscriptions recorded by Sabri Abbadi in 1995 at Qāʿ Fahdah and Tell al-Fahdāwī, Jordan
Site
Qāʿ al-Fahdah and Tall al-Fahdāwī, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1995
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Genealogy, Lineage, Grieving, Funerary
Old OCIANA ID
#0033627
Updated 02 May, 2026 by Michael Macdonald

Cite this Site

Michael C.A. Macdonald, 'AAEK 388,' ed. A. Al-Jallad and M.C.A. Macdonald, OCIANA, 02 May, 2026. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/16724. Accessed: 28 Oct, 2026.