RSIS 323

Siglum
RSIS 323
Transliteration
l ḥny bn ʾḥmr bn ms¹k {b}{n} {ẓ}ʿn {b}{n} s²mr w z{r}ʿ h- rḥ{b}t f h lt s¹lm
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Translation
By Ḥny son of ʾḥmr son of Ms¹k {son of} {Ẓʿn} and he sowed this raḥabah and so O Lt [grant] security
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Commentary
The author uses some very strange letter forms. Thus the first, third, fourth bs are almost identical to the ms; the hook of the k stretches right down to the foot of the stem; the ẓ is closed at the bases with the short diagonal strokes facing inwards rather than out; the second letter of the first word of the narrative looks like a m or a g but is perhaps meant to be a r (compare the different forms of b in the text) whereas rḥ{b}t has a perfectly normal r. Finally the b of rḥ{b}t, if that is what it is, consists solely of a straight vertical line.

Editio Princeps
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  • [RSIS] Rawan, S. Neue safaitische Inschriften aus Süd-Syrien. (Semitica et Semitohamitica Berolinensia, 16). Aachen: Shaker, 2013.
Site
Tall al-Ḍabiʿ/Tall al-Ḍubayʿah/Wādī al-Samin, Syria
Date Found
2006
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0032946
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