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BRenv.G 1

Text Information

Siglum
BRenv.G 1
Transliteration
l mg{d} bn zd bn qdm bn mrʾ bn ẓnnʾl {w} wgd s¹fr ʿm -h {b}ʿl{y} w wqr----ʾs¹ʿ----ydhm{ʿ}yh{f}tʾmrʾnfḫ{r}bnʾnn
Translation
By Mgd son of Zd son of Qdm son of Mrʾ son of Ẓnnʾl and he found the inscription of his grandfather Bʿly and Wqr----ʾs¹ʿ----Ydhmʿyhftʾmrʾnfḫrbnʾnn

Interpretation

Commentary
This text and 2 are on one face of the stone from this site taken to the Suweidah museum.BRenv. 4-7 are on adjacent faces. In small incised letters. CHECK ORIGINAL IN SWEIDAH.

Provenance
On the right bank of Wādī Shām, 400 m west of the water-tower at Biʾr al-Ruṣayʿī and 100 m north of the Rushayda-Zalaf road. A low outcrop and cairn

  • Inscriptions recorded by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme in 1995 at a low outcrop and cairn in the environs 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
#0036336
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