KWQ 82
Text Information
- Siglum
- KWQ 82
- Transliteration
- l ʾs¹lm b{{n}} ---- h- ṣrt
- Translation
- By ʾs¹lm {son of} ---- is the picture
Interpretation
- Commentary
- A line of the m has been extended to join the letter to the following b and the arms of the b are attached to the letter read as n. The line read as n is long and has a short horizontal line at one end. It is possible that the additions have been made later or the letter should be read as a z. There are then two relatively large hammered circular shapes which obscure two or more letters and there is a line hammered under them. The t at the end has arms attached to the ends of two of the crossed lines. Lane 1745a: ṣūrah "image picture". On the significance of the scene for our understanding of mounted warfare among the ancient nomads od Arabia and its surroundings see Macdonald 2015.
- Provenance
- Wādī Qattafi
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Special Features
- Infilling & ligatures
- Technique
- Direct hammered
- Associated Drawings
- KWQ 82 d/1
- Macdonald, M.C.A. Was there a “Bedouinization of Arabia”?. Der Islam 92:1, 2015: 42-84.
- Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King at Wādī Qaṭṭāfī, north-eastern Jordan, and published here.
- Site
- Survey site Tell 3, Jordan
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Drawing, Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0024235
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