SESP.S 2

Text Information

Siglum
SESP.S 2
Transliteration
l ḍhd bn ʿbd bn ḍhd bn ʿbd bn ḏʾb bn nʿmn bn kn bn nʿmn [[]][[]][[]][[]][[]][[]]bn wʿl bn rbn bn s²ʿr bn kn bn ṭḥrt bn hys¹r bn bʾs² bn ḍf w h lt s¹lm l- ḏ {d}ʿy w nqʾt l- ḏ ḫbl h- s¹{f}r
OCIANA
Translation
By Ḍhd son of ʿbd son of Ḍhd son of ʿbd son of Ḏʾb son of Nʿmn son of Kn son of Nʿmn son of Wʿl son of Rbn son of S²ʿr son of Kn son of Ṭḥrt son of Hys¹r son of Bʾs² son of Ḍf and O Lt [grant] security to whoever {reads [the inscription] aloud} and [inflict] ejection from the grave on him who destroys this {inscription}
OCIANA
Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Commentary
As in SESP.S 1, the genealogy here has 16 generations but shows a rather distant branch of the tribal genealogy from that in SESP.1. SESP.S 2–4 are by three brothers. SESP.2–4 demonstrate two of the three methods of marking affiliation to a social group. In SESP 2 this is done by tracing the author's lineage to the eponymous ancestor of his group, while the authors of SESP.S 3 and 4 use the expression ḏ- ʾl ("he of the lineage of") plus the group's name. These three inscriptions show that the ʾl Kn was a sub-group of the ʾl ḍf. Although the last letter of the sixth name is much longer than the first and looks like a l, comparison with the other kn genealogies shows that the name must be nʿmn. After the second nʿmn there are six letters which have been scratched over so effectively that it is difficult to work out what they were. For the interpretation of dʿy see Al-Jallad 2015: 309 and for the interpretation of nqʾt see Al-Jallad 2015: 335.

Associated Inscriptions

  • [MISS] Macdonald, M.C.A., Al Muʾazzin, M. & Nehmé, L. Les inscriptions safaïtiques de Syrie, cent quarante ans après leur découverte. Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres 1996: 435-494.
  • [SESP.S] Inscriptions recorded by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme in 1995 in Umm al-Ǧathādir (a tributary of Wādī al-Shām) and published here.
  • [SESP.U] Inscriptions recorded by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme in 1995 in Umm al-Ǧathādir (a tributary of Wādī al-Shām) and published here.
Site
Unnamed, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria
Date Found
1995
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Curse, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Lineage (ancestor)
Old OCIANA ID
#0035838
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Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA