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AWS 237

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
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Original Translation Credit
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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 Unpublished M.A. thesis, Yarmouk University. 1996.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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