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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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