BRenv.J 28
Text Information
- Siglum
- BRenv.J 28
- Transliteration
- l bhmn bn ḍbʿ bn rqlt w ʿnw f h rḍw ġnmt
- Translation
- By Bhmn son of Ḍbʿ son of Rqlt and he was in difficulties and so O Rḍw [grant] booty
Interpretation
- Commentary
- See the commentary to BRenv. 19. This text is in chiselled letters beside the second half of 27. ʿnw cf. Ar. ʿanā [ʿnw] “he was a captive”, though this does not square well wih the prayer for booty. Ar. ʿanā [ʿnw] also means “he took (something) by force”
- 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. 28
- Site
- Unnamed, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria
- Date Found
- 1995
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0036237
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