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BRenv.J 12

Text Information

Siglum
BRenv.J 12
Transliteration
l s¹krn bn ʿbd bn rbḥ bn ʿbd w rʿy h- mʿzy h/ nḫl mḥl
Translation
By S¹krn son of ʿbd son of Rbḥ son of ʿbd and he pastured the goats in this valley during a drought

Interpretation

Commentary
See the commentaries to BRenv.J 1 and 9. This text is in large letters running vertically down face B and then curving back on itself.

Provenance
An outcrop and cairn 1.2 km east of the water-tower at Biʾr al-Ruṣayʿī, on the Rushayda–Zalaf road, approximately 30 m south of the road, between the road and Wādī Shām.

  • Inscriptions recorded by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme in 1995 at an outcrop and cairn approximately 30 m south of the Rushaydah–Zalaf road, 1.2 km east of the water tower at Biʾr al-Ruṣayʿī, and published here. No. 12
Site
Unnamed, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria
Date Found
1995
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0035861
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