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QZMJ 640

Siglum
QZMJ 640
Alternative Sigla
ASFF 291
Transliteration
l zhrn bn ys¹lm w bny ʿl- ġṯ ʾ- ʾnfs¹ w wgm f h lt fṣy l- ḏ s¹ʾr
Translation
By Zhrn son of Ys¹lm and he built for Ġṯ the gravestones and he grieved [for him]. So, O Lt [grant] deliverance for whoever leaves [the inscription] untouched

Interpretation

Commentary
Note the relatively rare definite article ʾ- (see Al-Jallad 2015: 16–17).

Provenance
The inscription was photographed in 1995 by Sabri Abbadi who gives the co-ordinates as Lat 32.183519 Long 37.241817. It was photographed again, independently at another date by Hussein Al Qudrah, Mahdi Alzoubi or Sulṭān Al-Maanī who give the co-ordinates as Lat 32.105692 and Long 37.260832
Original Reading Credit
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Original Translation Credit
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  • Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
  • Previously unpublished inscriptions recorded by Al-Qudrah, Ḥ., Al-Zuʿbī, M. and Al-Maʿānī, S.A.
  • Previously unpublished Safaitic inscriptions recorded by Sabri Abbadi at Qāʿ Fahadah and Tell al-Fāhdawy, Jordan
Site
Qāʿ al-Fahdah and Tall al-Fāhdawy or Zumaylāt Hārūn, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1995
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Building, Deity, Funerary, Genealogy, Grieving, Isolated Prayer
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0034413
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