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BRenv.H 1

Siglum
BRenv.H 1
Transliteration
l mlk bn ʿmd bn ms¹k w wgd ʾṯr ʿm -h ḥmyn f ql h gdḍf {h}b {l} {-h} [[]] k- s¹ʿd -h w k- wld -h w k- nʿm -h
Translation
By Mlk son of ʿmd son of Ms¹k and he found the inscription of his grandfather Ḥmyn and he said “O Gd-Ḍf give to him the like of his happiness and the like of his children like and the like of his flocks

Interpretation

Commentary
Photograph only. The rock has laminated just above the third letter making it look like a z and there is a chip immediately after it which looks like a ʿ. A letter has been carefully scraped over just before k- s¹ʿd -h. This seems to be the first occasion

Provenance
Approximately 300 m south of Biʾr al-Ruṣayʿī, on top of a hill. A number of elaborate Ahl al-Jabal graves with "wings", one with a desert mosque attached. There are a number of modern Arabic inscriptions associated with these graves. Some Safaitic texts are on stones used in the graves and on the rocks around.

  • Inscriptions recorded by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme in 1995 at a number of elaborate Ahl al-Ǧabal graves with "wings", one with a desert mosque attached, some 80 m south of the water tower at Biʾr al-Ruṣayʿī, and published here.
Site
Unnamed, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria
Date Found
1995
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0036209
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