AWS 396
Text Information
- Siglum
- AWS 396
- Transliteration
- l bnʾlh bn ʾs¹ bn ṣʿd w wld h- ḍʾ[n] f h lt s¹lm w ġnyt l- ḏ dʿy h- s¹fr w w{g}m ʿl- ʾḫw -h ʿl- ṣʿd w ʿl- qdm {ḏ-} ʾl nġbr s¹nt lʾk qṣr ʾn myt ʿm rm wft wqd dms²q
- Translation
- By Bnʾlh son of ʾs¹ son of Ṣʿd and he helped the {sheep} to give birth and so O Lt [grant] security and abundance to whoever reads this inscription aloud and {he grieved} for Ṣʿd and for Qdm his brothers {of} the lineage of Nġbr [in] the year lʾk Caesar that ʿm had died [in] Rm wft wqd Damascus
Interpretation
- Commentary
- For the phrase ʾn myt compare Ms 44 s¹mʿ ʾn myt flfṣ "he heard that Flfṣ had died". This is the first reference so far in Safaitic to Damascus.
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Associated Remains
- Cairn 3
- 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 Unpublished M.A. thesis, Yarmouk University. 1996.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
- #0031070
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