KhBG 411
Text Information
- Siglum
- KhBG 411
- Transliteration
- l hs¹m bn gḥfl bn s¹dy w ʿm{y} h----s¹r b- ḏkr ʿgzt
- Translation
- By Hs¹m son of Gḥfl son of S¹dy w ʿm{y} h----s¹r when the sun was in Aries ʿgzt
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- KhBG 411: w ʿm lh ys¹r b- ḏkr ʿgzt "wa yussarat (kiṯratan) wilādatu iblihi (wa ʾaġnæmihi) fī (manṭaqati) Ḏkr sannatan ©aḥḥat al-ʾamṭār"
- Commentary
- The letter after the second m has a slightly rounded end and it seems likely it is a y. The letter before the third s¹ is damaged. It could be a y h or l. It is not clear from the commentary how the editor interprets the letters l and h after the second m.
- Provenance
- Wādī Ghuṣayn
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- 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.
- Al-Jallad, A.M An Ancient Arabian Zodiac. The Constellations in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Part II. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 27, 2016: 84–106.
- Site
- Wādī and Biyār al-Ġuṣayn, Jordan
- Date Found
- 01.07.1990-24.07.1990
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0018295
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