RWQ 331

Siglum: RWQ 331
Alternative Sigla: AbSWS 84
Transliteration: l s²hm bn rgl bn ʿmd bn mlk w ʾs²rq b- h- ʾbl m ḥrn m mḥl f wgd ḥrt ḫbṯt f h lt w s²ʿhqm s¹lm w ḫlṣt m bʾs¹ h- s¹nt w nqʾt b- ʾḫ- h l- ḏ yʿwr h- tll
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Translation: By S²hm son of Rgl son of ʿbd son of Mlk and he migrated to the inner desert with the camels from Ḥrn because of dearth so he found Ḥrt in a very bad state. So O Lt and S²ʿhqm [grant] security and deliverance from despair this year and ejection from the grave by his brother and blindness on him who scratches out these words
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Language and Script: Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: see: Newsletter of the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology Yarmouk University No. 19 pp. 17-19 / 1996: Wādī Salmā, Ḫāld al-Gbūr: naqš raqm 1: yaḏkur haḏā an-naqš anna ṣāḥibah ḫaraga bi-ʾiblihi min ḥūrān šarqān ila aṣ-ṣḥraʾ; wa ḏālika bi-sababi -l-jadb wa-l-maḥl al-laḏān ʾaṣābā manṭaqatahu wa ʾaqāma f¡ ḥarratan "ḫbṯ". Where ḫbṯ is interpreted as the name of the area of the Ḥarra.
Commentary: Ḥrn is almost certainly "the Ḥawrān" and ḥrt "the ḥarrah" or basalt desert. Note that neither take the definite article in Safaitic.

[AbSWS] ʿAbbādī [Abbadi], Ṣ. Nuqūš ṣafawiyyah min wādī salmā (al-bādiyah al-urduniyah). Amman: Badia Research and Development Center, 2006.
[RWQ] Al-Rūsān [Al-Rousan, Rousan], M.M. Nuqūš ṣafawīyah min wādī qiṣṣāb bi-ʾl-urdun. Dirāsah maydānīyah taḥlīlīyah muqāranah. Unpublished doctoral thesis King Saʿūd University, Riyadh. 2004.

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