RWQ 349

Siglum: RWQ 349
Transliteration: l ʾnʿm bn ʾs¹ bn ḫl bn ʾs¹ḫr bn bhs² bn ʾḏnt w bʿy -h ʾl ḥwlt s¹nt f {s¹}{n}t f h lt ʾws¹ w s¹{ʿ}d {b-} -h w ḫrṣ bʾs¹ w ḫr f h lt wqyt
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Translation: By ʾnʿm son of ʾs¹ son of Ḫl son of ʾs¹ḫr son of Bhs² son of ʾḏnt and the ʾl Ḥwlt mistreated him year after year and so O Lt [grant] compensation and good fortune {in} it for he was expecting both misfortune and good fortune and so O Lt [grant] protection
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Language and Script: Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: RWQ 349: l ʾnʿm bn ʾs¹ bn ḫl bn ʾs¹ḫr bn ʾḥnt w rʿy b- ʾl ḥwlt s¹nt f s¹ṭ f h lt ʾws¹
Commentary: It is clear that the verb which immediately follows the genealogy is bʿy (or possibly bgy), not rʿy as read in the editio princeps (b and r are clearly distinguished in this text), but we are unable to offer a satisfactory meaning for it. However, the syntax suggests that it is something that the ʾl Hwlt did to the author. For s¹nt f {s¹}{n}t compare the more common ʿm f ʿm "year after year". In the first prayer we have taken {b-} -h as referring to the bʿy of the l Ḥwlt and w ḫrṣ bʾs¹ w ḫr as a circumstance clause (see Al-Jallad 2015: 193–194).

Al-Jallad, A. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
[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 Unpublished doctoral thesis King Saʿūd University, Riyadh. 2004.

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