SIJ 911
Text Information
- Siglum
- SIJ 911
- Transliteration
- l ʾs¹ bn ṣʿd bn ys¹mʾl w ʾs²rq mdbr m- byʾl f kmʾ s¹nt myt h- mlk f h gdḍf s¹lm
- Translation
- By ʾs¹ son of Ṣʿd son of Ys¹mʾl and he migrated to the inner desert from Byʾl and fed on truffles in the year the king died and O Gdḍf [grant] security
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- MST p. 4 n. 23: w ʾs²rq mdbr m- byʾl f kmʾ s¹nt myt h- mlk and he migrated to the inner desert from Byʾl and fed on truffles in the year the king died MNH p. 343: on s¹nt myt hmlk - the year [the king or] Hmlk died and Graf's interpretation; p. 344 and n. 263.
- Commentary
- The translation here is from Macdonald 1992: 4, n. 23. On s¹nt myt h-mlk see Macdonald 2009: I, 343–344
- Macdonald, M.C.A. The Seasons and Transhumance in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 3rd. series, 2, 1992: 1-11.
- Winnett, F.V. Safaitic Inscriptions from Jordan. (Near and Middle East Series, 2). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1957.
- Macdonald, M.C.A. Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia. (Variorum Collected Studies, 906). Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.
- Site
- Tall al-ʿAbd, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0030047
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