SESP.S 6

Siglum: SESP.S 6
Transliteration: l s²mt bn mdʿ bn s²mt bn ḫlʾl ḏ- ʾl qmr w nqʾ b- ḥbb -h mn yḫbl mʿl ḥwq
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Translation: By S²mt son of Mdʿ son of S²mt son of Ḫlʾl of the lineage of Qmr and [inflict] ejection from the grave by his friend on whoever effaces [the inscription] out of jealousy.
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Language and Script: Safaitic

Interpretation

Commentary: SESP.S 5–13 are on the broad, vertical face of a large boulder. This text starts just below the beginning of SESP.S 5 and runs parallel with it down the right-hand side of the face, with the last two letters on the adjoining face. It is not clear whether nqʾ is a different word from the usual nqʾt, or whether the author simply forgot the t. Note that the expression mʿl- ḥwq also occurs in SESP.D 12 and KRS 1015. For an explanation of the phrase see Al-Jallad 2015: 152.

Associated Inscriptions

Al-Jallad, A. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
[KRS] Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here No. 1015
[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.D] Inscriptions recorded by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme in 1995 in the Wādī al-Shām, north-east of the modern dam at al-Namārah, and published here.
[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.

Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA

OCIANA. 'SESP.S 6.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/22593. Accessed: 05 Jun, 2025.