MA 6
Text Information
- Siglum
- MA 6
- Transliteration
- l trml bn yʿly bn ḍhdt bn s¹dy
- Translation
- By Trml son of Yʿly son of Ḍhdt son of S¹dy
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- MA ḫrml for trml
- Commentary
- The second letter is too small to be read as a ḫ (cf the the t of ḍhdt). The name is new but perhaps cf. Arabic tarm¡l (maṣdar of rml II) "defiling" or tarammul (maṣdar of V) "being defiled: (Lane 1159b and c). But are maṣdars used as names?
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Special Letter Forms
- The ḍ is very squat
- Technique
- Chiselled
- Al-Maʿānī [Maani, Al-Maʿani], S.ʿA. & Al-Aǧlūnī [Al-Ajlouni], F. Safaitic Inscriptions From the Eastern Part of Mafraq Governorate / Jordan. Adumatu 8, 2003: 33-49.
- Site
- Wādī Salmā, Jordan
- Current Location
- Al-Mafraq Antiquities Office and Museum
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0017842
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