AAWHA 89

Siglum: AAWHA 89
Transliteration: l ʾ<<>>hdm bn yʿly w wlh bʿw f h lt kfyt w w
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Translation: By ʾhdm son of Yʿly and he was distressed on account of unjust treatment and so O Lt [grant] sufficient food and w
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Language and Script: Safaitic

Interpretation

Commentary: There is what appears to be a vertical line between the second and third letters, but since it is thicker and rougher than the lines of the letters, it would seem to be extraneous to the inscription. For the interpretation of bʿw see Al-Jallad & Jaworska. Here bʿw is taken as an infinitive in the adverbial accusative. For kfyt cf. Arabic kufyah "food, sufficiency" (Hava 661). There is a large w and a partly formed w after kfyt. However, it appears that the author stopped at this point. The layout of AAWHA 90 suggests that it was carved after 89 and fitted in around it.

Associated Inscriptions

[AAWHA] Inscriptions recorded by Ali Al-Manaser in a tributary of Wādī al-Ḫuḍarī in September 2022
[SafDict] Al-Jallad, A. & Jaworska, K. A Dictionary of the Safaitic Inscriptions. Leiden: Brill, 2019
[Hava] Hava, J.G. Al-Faraid Arabic-English Dictionary. Fifth edition. Beirut: Dār al-Mašriq, 1982.

Updated 16 Sep, 2024