ISB 57

Siglum
ISB 57
Transliteration
l ʾs¹yb bn mrh bn ʿbṯn ḏ- ʾl mḥrb w wgm ʿl- ʾḫt -h ʿḏb w qṣṣ s¹nt mlk rbʾl
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Translation
By ʾs¹yb son of Mrh son of ʿbṯn of the tribe of Mḥrb. And he grieved for the sister of ha-ʿḏb. And he followed in pursuit the year of king Rbʾl
OCIANA
Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
MNH p. 343 and n. 260: s¹nt mlk rbʾl - the year Rbʾl was made king; p. 344 and n. 263: on Graf and the dating formula.
Commentary
The text is partly enclosed in a decorated cartouche. The script is square.

Editio Princeps
ed. pr.

Associated Signs
7 lines
Associated Remains
None

  • [MNH] Macdonald, M.C.A. Nomads and the Ḥawrān in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods: A reassessment of the epigraphic evidence. Syria 70, 1993: 303-413. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda as Article II in M.C.A. Macdonald, Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia, (Variorum Collected Studies Series no. 906), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009].
  • [ISB] Oxtoby, W.G. Some Inscriptions of the Safaitic Bedouin. (American Oriental Series, 50). New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society, 1968.
Site
Site 4 on the survey, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1959
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0016213
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