OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

ZSI 1

Text Information

Siglum
ZSI 1
Transliteration
l ʿqrb bn hnʾt ḏ- ʾl tm w ndm ʿl- ʾm -h trḥt w bny ʿl- -h
Translation
By ʿqrb son of Hnʾt of the lineage of Tm and he was devastated by grief for his mother who had died and he built [a cairn] over her

Interpretation

Commentary
Note that the photograph in ZSI fig. 1 is printed back-to-front.

Provenance
Given by the antiquities dealer M. Al-Afghānī to the Amman Museum
Original Reading Credit
Ed. pr.
Original Translation Credit
Ed. pr.

Technique
Incised

Associated Signs
7 lines

  • Zayadine, F. A Safaitic Inscription in the Amman Archaeological Museum. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 24, 1980: 107-109.
Site
Umm al-Ǧimāl [?], Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
Amman Museum J (13157)
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0003136
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