NST 3

Siglum
NST 3
Transliteration
l s²ʿ bn khl w wgm ʿl- s²gʾ ʾḫ -h rġm mny w ʾty nẓr h- ṯbrn mn- ʾl ṣbḥ s¹nt ḥrb -hm ʾl ʿwḏ b- wʿl w ġnmt l- ḏ dʿy w ʿwr ds²r ḏ ḫbl
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Translation
By S²ʿ son of Khl and he grieved for S²gʾ his brother struck down by Fate and the warriors from the lineage of Ṣbḥ came to guard in the year the lineage of ʿwḏ waged war upon them near Wʿl and may he who would read aloud [the inscription] have spoil but may Ds²r blind him who would destroy [it]
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
Littmann quoted in commentary to NST 3: w ʾty nẓr h- ṯbrn mn "and he came looking for the man (or the two men) expelled from the ʾl ṣbḥ"; JSIS p. 206: ʾty nẓr h- ṯbrn mn ʾṣbḥ "he came watching the destruction from the morning on"; JSaf.N 6: corrects his reading (above) to mn ʾl ṣbḥ.
Commentary
The translation is that of Al-Jallad 2015: 276.

Editio Princeps
Ed. pr.

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Boustrophedon

Associated Signs
7 lines
Associated Remains
Cairn

  • [NST] Harding, G.L. New Safaitic Texts. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 1, 1951: 25-29, pl. 8.
  • [JSIS] Jamme, A. Safaitic Inscriptions from Saudi Arabia. Oriens Antiquus 6, 1967: 189-213, pl. 50-55.
  • [JSaf.N] Jamme, A. Safaitic Notes (Commentary on JaS 44-176). [privately printed]. Washington, DC, 1970.
Site
Qaʿ el ʿAbd, Jordan
Current Location
Amman Museum J (1816)
Subjects
Curse, Date (s¹nt), Deity, Genealogy, Grieving, Group (in the narrative), Isolated Prayer, Place-name
Old OCIANA ID
#0003066
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Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA