AWS 237
Text Information
- Siglum
- AWS 237
- Transliteration
- l ḫzmʾ bn kn h- gml w qṣy -h ʾm m ʿwr h rḍw f l- ywʿr m ʿwr w l- yqʾ b- ṣdq
- Translation
- By Ḫzmʾ son of Kn is the male camel and he dedicated it [to a deity] if someone would scratch [it] out O Rḍw then let him who would scratch [it] out be blinded then let him be thrown out of the grave by a friend
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The translation is taken from Al-Jallad 2015: 226. For an explanation of the asseverative l see p. 110, and for the use of f here see pp. 162–163, and on the conditional particle ʾm see pp. 161,197.
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Associated Remains
- Cairn 1
- Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
- ʿAlūlū [Alulu], Ġ.M.Y. Dirāsat nuqūš ṣafawīyyah jadīdah min wādī al-sūʿ ǧanūb sūrīyyah. Unpublished M.A. thesis, Yarmouk University. 1996.
- Site
- Wādī al-Sūʿ, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria
- Date Found
- 1995
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Curse, Deity, Drawing of a domestic animal, Genealogy, Religion
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0030910
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