KhBG 398
Text Information
- Siglum
- KhBG 398
- Transliteration
- l bnyʿmr hnʾy h rḍy
- Translation
- By Bnyʿmr hnʾy O Rḍy
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- KhBG 398: l bnʿmr hnʾ y rḍy
- Commentary
- The Bnyʿmr has been found several times before. OCIANA does not alas have access to the late Fawwaz Khraysheh's photographs of the KhBG inscriptions, but supposing that the facsimile is correct, there are several possible explanations for hnʾy. It could be the author's nisbah referring to an *ʾl nʾ or nʾt. This does not seem particularly likely. It could be the something requested of Rḍy, and the root H-N-ʾ would produce suitable subjects for such a prayer, "ease", "plentiful giving", etc. but the form with final -y is difficult to explain. A personal name hnʾy is otherwise unknown and so it is unlikely that it is the author's patronym with the bn omitted. We have therefore left it uninterpreted for the present.
- Provenance
- Wādī Ghuṣayn
- Original Reading Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Original Translation Credit
- Ed. pr
- Name Distinguished
- Larger-normal/normal
- Technique
- Copy only
- Associated Remains
- Cairn 14
- Associated Inscriptions
- Al-Khraysheh, F.H. Nuqūš ṣafawiyah min biyār al-ġuṣayn. (Mudawwanat al-nuqūš al-urduniyah, 1). Irbid: Ǧāmiʿat al-yarmūk, 2002.
- Site
- Wādī and Biyār al-Ġuṣayn, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 01.07.1990-24.07.1990
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0018281
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