Palmyrene 2

Image © Maria Gorea
Siglum
Palmyrene 2
Alternative Sigla
Bādiyah 2
Transliteration
dkyr
ʿzy
ṣṭrʾ
dkyr w dkyr tgrʾ
Gorea 2023
Translation
May be remembered
ʿAzzay
the ṣaṭrāʾ [carver ?]
that it be mentioned and that the merchant be commemorated
Gorea 2023
Language and Script
Aramaic (Palmyrene)/Palmyrene

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus

Kubiak-Schneider & Al-Manaser 2024: 265: ḥṭry 'the carder' or 'Hatrene' for ṣṭrʾ; Kubiak-Schneider & Al-Manaser 2024: 265: tʿdy 'the one who passes by' for tgrʾ 'trader'

Commentary

The reading and translation (originally in French) are by M. Gorea in Gorea (2023: 248–249) and see her commentary (pp. 250–252).

Gorea 2023

Editio Princeps
M. Gorea 2023
Field Collector
BES18 team

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Right to left

  • [BES18] Inscriptions recorded during the Badia Epigraphic Survey 2018 and published here
  • Gorea, M. Deux nouveaux graffites palmyréniens découverts dans la Bādiyah (Jordanie). Pages 239–254 in I. Gajda & F. Briquel Chatonnet (eds), Arabie — Arabies. Volume offert à Christian Julien Robin par ses collègues, ses élèves et ses amis. Paris: Geuthner, 2023.
  • Kubiak-Schneider, A. & Al-Manaser, A. Documenting the ḥarra’s epigraphic heritage: new Palmyrene inscriptions from the Jordanian ḥarra. Levant 56.2, 2024: 259-268
Site
Wādī al-Šuwayṭī, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
2018
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Prayer
Old OCIANA ID
#0057795
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Updated 12 Jan, 2025 by Ahmad Al-Jallad

Cite this Site

Gorea 2023, 'Palmyrene 2,' ed. A. Al-Jallad and M.C.A. Macdonald, OCIANA, 12 Jan, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/23546. Accessed: 27 Mar, 2026.