BES20 8
Text Information
- Siglum
- BES20 8
- Transliteration
- l ʾ{d}ʿgt bn ḥr w hy lt flṭ m- ẓlm
- Translation
- By {ʾdʿgt} son of Ḥr and O Lt [grant] deliverance from oppression
Interpretation
- Commentary
- ʾ{d}ʿgt: The d has a side stroke that makes it resemble a h. hy: Vocative particle, less common than h. Often used with the deities Lt, Lh, and ʾlt. See Al-Jallad 2015: 158–59.
- Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
- Inscriptions recorded during the Badia Epigraphic Survey 2020 and published here
- Site
- Wādī al-Mismā al-Šarqī, c. 52 km north-west of Al-Ruwayšid, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 2020
- Current Location
- in situ
- Subjects
- Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0057042
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