CTBC 2

Siglum
CTBC 2
Transliteration
l ʾḥs¹n bn ʾs¹ bn bddh w wlh ʿl- ʾb -h ʾs¹r
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Translation
By ʾḥs¹n son of ʾs¹ son of Bddh and he grieved for his father ʾs¹r
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
CTBC: translated from w wlh as "and he was dejected with grief for his father [who was] taken captive". JMAA XIII p. 130-131: ʾḥs¹l for ʾḥs¹n.
Commentary
If the author's father's name is ʾs¹ then presumably the last word is not a name but needs to be translated.

Editio Princeps
Ed. pr.

Technique
Chiselled
Direction of Script
Curving

Associated Remains
Cairn
Associated Inscriptions

  • [CTBC] Clark, V.A. Archaeological Investigations at Two Burial Cairns in the Ḥarra Region of Jordan. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 25, 1981: 235-265.
Site
Site H, 40 km south-south-west of al-Ruwayšid (formerly H4), Jordan
Current Location
Unknown
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0010526
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