BES20 108
Text Information
- Siglum
- BES20 108
- Transliteration
- l lḏn bn ʿḏ bn s¹wr bn ndm bn s¹wr w ḫrṣ hrm w ḥwlt
- Translation
- By Lḏn son of ʿḏ son of S¹wr son of Ndm son of S¹wr and he looked out for the Hrm and the Ḥwlt
Interpretation
- Commentary
- Hrm: It is not certain whether hrm refers to the Romans or another tribal group, see Macdonald 1993: 331–333.
- Macdonald, M.C.A. Nomads and the Ḥawrān in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods: A reassessment of the epigraphic evidence. Syria 70, 1993: 303-413. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda as Article II in M.C.A. Macdonald, Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia, (Variorum Collected Studies Series no. 906), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009].
- 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
- Genealogy, Group (in the narrative), Watch (keeping)
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0057160
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