AWS 291
Text Information
- Siglum
- AWS 291
- Transliteration
- h ʾlt {b}nt rḍw ġwṯ -h ḥld bn ḥḍrt bn ʾbrr w l- -h h- dr
- Translation
- O ʾlt {daughter} of Rḍw relieve him Ḥld son of Ḥḍrt son of ʾbrr and he was here
Interpretation
- Commentary
- This and AWS 283 are the first indications in Ancient North Arabian of a family relationship between the goddess ʾlt and the god Rdw. The author apparently has a habit of carving his bs back-to-front or at 90º and in one case (in the bn before ḥḍrt) in the form of a r.
- 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 Unpublished M.A. thesis, Yarmouk University. 1996.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
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0030964
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