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BRenv.J 45

Siglum
BRenv.J 45
Transliteration
l ġyrʾl bn ʾs²g bn qtl h- ḫṭṭ w rʿy h- ʾbl h- ʿrḍ bql w wgm ʿl- ʾb [-h]
Translation
By Ġyrʾl son of ʾs²g son of Qtl is the carving and he pastured the camels in this valley on spring herbage and he grieved for his father

Interpretation

Commentary
BRenv.J 45 and 46 are on the same face. This text is written in very lightly scratched letters around the drawing. The end has been obscured by 46 and if there was a final h it has been entirely destroyed by the ḏ of the penultimate name of that text.

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. 45
Site
Unnamed, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria
Date Found
1995
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0036052
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