ZeGA 11
Text Information
- Siglum
- ZeGA 11
- Transliteration
- l ʿm bn rkb bn hwd bn ẓnn w rʿy h- mʿzy h- nḫl qyẓ f ḫrṣ h- ṭbʿ f hy lt s¹lm w nqʾt l- ḏ yʿwr h- s¹fr
- Translation
- By ʿm son of Rkb son of Hwd son of Ẓnn and he pastured the goats in the valley in the dry season and so he was on the look out for the place where water has sunk into the earth and collected and so O Lt [grant] security and [inflict] ejection from the grave on whoever scratches out the inscription
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- ZeGA 11: h- ṭbʿ "this river" for "the place where water has sunk into the earth and collected"
- Commentary
- The translation of h-ṭbʿ as "this river", seems unlikely since the author has stated that he is spending the dry season in this valley and we have therefore translated it as "the place where water has sunk into the earth and collected" (see Lane 1824a, and Groom 1983: 292) which seems more appropriate.
- Provenance
- Jabal al-ʿArab
- Original Reading Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched
- Associated Signs
- 7 lines
- Associated Inscriptions
- Lane, E.W. An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived from the Best and Most Copious Eastern Sources. (Volume 1 in 8 parts [all published]). London: Williams & Norgate, 1863-1893.
- Groom, N. A Dictionary of Arabic Topography and Placenames. A Transliterated Arabic-English Dictionary with an Arabic Glossary of Topographical Words and Placenames. London: Longman / Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1983.
- Zeinaddin, H. Safaitische Inschriften aus dem Ǧabal al-ʿArab. Damaszener Mitteilungen 12, 2000: 265-289, pls 58-69.
- Site
- The left bank of Wādī Rušaydah, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria
- Date Found
- 1997
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Curse, Deity, Domestic animals, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Pasturing, Season, Topographic features, Watch (keeping)
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0018608
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