ZeGA 14
Text Information
- Siglum
- ZeGA 14
- Transliteration
- ---- w wgd [[ʾ]]ṯr gs² -h f ngʿ
- Translation
- ---- and he found the traces of his raiding party and so he grieved in pain
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- ZeGA 14: w wgd [[ʾ]]ṯr gs² -h f ngʿ "and he found the remains of his army and longed [for it]"
- Commentary
- The first two letters are missing from the photograph and have been read from the copy. The author wrote a second d after wgd and then scratched lightly over the loop and changed the letter to an ʾ by adding two prongs.
- Provenance
- Jabal al-ʿArab
- Original Reading Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched
- 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
- Finding inscription(s), Grieving, Raiding
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0018611
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