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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

AWS 283

Text Information

Siglum
AWS 283
Transliteration
h ʾlt bnt rḍw flṭ m- s¹nt h- ḥrb flṭʾl bn ḫzr bn ḫḏy bn wkyt
Translation
O ʾlt daughter of Rḍw deliver from this year of war Flṭʾl son of Ḫzr son of Ḫḏy son of Wkyt

Interpretation

Commentary
This and AWS 291 are the first indications in Ancient North Arabian of a family relationship between the goddess ʾlt and the god Rdw.

Provenance
Wādī as-Sūʿ is some 3.6 km due east of al-Namārah.
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Associated Remains
Cairn 1

  • 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 Unpublished M.A. thesis, Yarmouk University. 1996.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
Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0030956
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