AAEK 389

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Siglum
AAEK 389
Alternative Sigla
QZMJ 440, ASFF 292
Transliteration
l ʿwḏ bn s²mt bn mdd w wgd ʾṯr {k}hl w ʾs²yʿ -h f bʾs¹ m ẓll
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Translation
By ʿwḏ son of S²mt son of Mdd and he found the traces of {Khl} and his companions and so despair to those who remain
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Language and Script
Safaitic 1

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus

After ʾs²yʿ -h, AAEK 389 reads f h lt s¹lm for f bʾs¹ m ẓll

Commentary

Presumably the Khl whose inscription the author found was the author of AAEK 387 on the same stone. It is difficult to see why AAEK read f h lt s¹lm at the end of the text. After the f the text turns to the right and its letters are carved between those of the end of AAEK 388. Note that the first l of ẓll touches the circle of a y in AAEK 388, making the combination look like a d.

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Editio Princeps
AAEK 389
Field Collector
Sabri Abbadi

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
right to left curving downwards

  • [AAEK] Al-Manāsīr [Al-Manaser], A.Y.Kh. Ein Korpus neuer safaitischer Inschriften aus Jordanien. (Semitica et Semitohamitica Berolinensia, 10). Aachen: Shaker, 2008. No. 389
  • [QZMJ] Previously unpublished Safaitic inscriptions recorded by H. Al-Qudrah, M. Al-Zuʿbī, and S.A. Al-Maʿānī No. 440
  • [ASFF] Previously unpublished Safaitic inscriptions recorded by Sabri Abbadi in 1995 at Qāʿ Fahdah and Tell al-Fahdāwī, Jordan No. 292
Site
Qāʿ al-Fahdāwī, Jordan
Date Found
1995
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Genealogy, Finding inscription(s)
Old OCIANA ID
#0033628
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Updated 02 May, 2026 by Michael Macdonald

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Michael C.A. Macdonald, 'AAEK 389,' ed. A. Al-Jallad and M.C.A. Macdonald, OCIANA, 02 May, 2026. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/16725. Accessed: 11 May, 2026.