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AAWHA 1

Text Information

Siglum
AAWHA 1
Transliteration
l ṣʿd bn s¹wdn bn mty bn ʿdy bn mny w byt h- dr b- h- ḍʾn s²ty s¹nt ṣlb h- mlk wdn w ḫrṣ ʾb -h f h lh ḥnn w fṣyt m- bʾs¹ w ʿwr w ʿrg w grb w ḫrs¹ ḏ yḫbl w ġnmt l- ḏ dʿy
Translation
By Ṣʿd son of S¹wdn son of Mty son of ʿdy son of Mny and spent the night here with the sheep in the winter of the year king Wdn was crucified and he was on the look out for his father and so O Lh show compassion and deliverance from misfortune and [make] blind and lame and scabby and dumb whoever may damage [the inscription] and [give] booty to whoever reads [it]

Interpretation

Commentary
The inscription runs boustrophedon starting just above the scale in the photographs.

Provenance
A tributary of wādī al-Ḫuḍarī

  • Inscriptions recorded by Ali Al-Manaser in a tributary of Wādī al-Ḫuḍarī in September 2022
Site
Wādī al-Ḫuḍarī area, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
15-09-2022
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Curse, Date (s¹nt), Deity, Domestic animals, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Outside peoples, Present in a place, Relatives, Season, Watch (keeping)
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0057575
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