NST 4
Text Information
- Siglum
- NST 4
- Transliteration
- l zbd bn s¹ḫr bn dʾf bn s¹ḫr w rdf h- ḍʾn f h gdʿwḏ s¹lm w mgdt
- Translation
- By Zbd son of S¹ḫr son of Dʾf son of Ḫr and he followed the sheep. So O Gd ʿwḏ [grant] security and glory
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- JSafN 34: mgdt "happiness". H unp. p. 197: mgdt "abundance". GK: as NST.
- Commentary
- There is an apotropaic sign of seven lines on the same stone (the ends of the lines are linked together by two other lines running perpendicular to them).
- Original Reading Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Associated Remains
- Cairn
- Associated Inscriptions
- Harding, G.L. New Safaitic Texts. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 1, 1951: 25-29, pl. 8.
- Site
- Qaʿ el ʿAbd, Jordan
- Current Location
- Amman Museum J (1817)
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0003067
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