ISB 113

Siglum: ISB 113
Transliteration: l ʿmdn bn s¹ʿd bn drs¹ w dṯʾ ḥrt ḫfg
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Translation: By ʿmdn son of S¹ʿd son of Drs¹ and he spent the season of the later rains in the ḥrt [pasturing on] ḫfg
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Language and Script: Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: ISB: dṯʾ ḥrt ḫfg "he spent the spring in the region of basalt rocks. And the camels' knees trembled (?)" Beeston (review of ISB, JRAS 1970: 220): ḫfg is probably the name of the particular ḥarrah
Commentary: H̲fg occurs here and in WH 171 and KRS 1836. A member of the Ahl al-Jabal, who inhabit the ḥarrah of southern Syria and north-eastern Jordan, identified a plant of the ḥarrah shown him by Geraldine King as ḫafaǧ. Dr Sue Colledge later identified it from a photograph as Diplotaxis Harra. Dṯʾ ḥrt ḫfg is presumably an elliptical expression meaning "he spent the season of the lesser rains in the ḥarrah [pasturing on] ḫfg"

Beeston, A.F.L. {Review of W.G. Oxtoby, Some Inscriptions of the Safaitic Bedouin. (American Oriental Series 50. New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society, 1968). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1970: 219-221.
[ISB] Oxtoby, W.G. Some Inscriptions of the Safaitic Bedouin. (American Oriental Series, 50). New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society, 1968.
[WH] Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.

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