SIJ 779.1
Text Information
- Siglum
- SIJ 779.1
- Transliteration
- [h] rḍw s¹ʿd ẓyʾ ʿn- wn bn tḥwr
- Translation
- {O} Rḍw help Ẓyʾ ʿnwn son of Tḥwr
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- SIJ 779: ʿlwn bn tḏr w for ʿn- wn bn tḥwr; reads SIJ 779.2 as the end of this text.
- Commentary
- The restoration of the initial vocative particle seems certain. The ʿ has been split by a crack in the rock but cannot be anything else (cf. bn later in the text). The next letter is no different from the n of bn and so the preposition must be ʿn- “against”. The direction of the r suggests that the w precedes it hence tḥwr. There is no connection between this text and SIJ 779.2.
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Winnett, F.V. Safaitic Inscriptions from Jordan. (Near and Middle East Series, 2). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1957.
- Site
- Tall al-ʿAbd, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Current Location
- In situ
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0017497
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