SSWS 80

Siglum: SSWS 80
Transliteration: l ʿqrb bn ʿbd bn nʿmn bn kn w mr b- ḍf f ʿdy h- ʾs¹d f ḫbl rbʿt f h lt brkt ʾḫk ḏ- ----
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Translation: By ʿqrb son of ʿbd son of Nʿmn son of Kn and he passed by Ḍf; and [the season of] Leo finished and the good herbage [was destroyed], so, O Lt, [grant] a blessing ʾẖk ḏ ----
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Language and Script: Safaitic

Interpretation

Commentary: Unfortunately, the only available copy (Al-Ṣuwayrikī [Al-Sweerky] 1999: 214) stops at the end of the genealogy (kn) with two further letters w q, which are not included in Al-Ṣuwayrikī's reading (1999: 40). It is therefore impossible to check the accuracy of the reading. ʾl-ʾs¹d is the constellation Leo which marked the transition from the early summer, s¹ayf, when there could still be good herbage and even occasional rain, to the dry season qyẓ (see Al-Jallad 2014: 216, and the table at the end of the Appendix; note that in the Appendix this inscription is mistakenly called "RSIS 80" rather than "SSWS 80").

[SSWS] Al-Ṣuwayrikī [Al-Sweerky], M.ʿA. Dirāsat nuqūš ṣafawiyyah ǧadīdah min šamāl wādī sārah fī šamāl al-urdun. Unpublished MA thesis, Yarmouk University. 1999.

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