ASWS 73

Text Information

Siglum
ASWS 73
Transliteration
l rbʾl bn ḥnn bn ẓʿn bn ḫyḏ bn ʿḏr w wrd ḥḏr f mlḥ f ḏkr f ʾmt f ʾmt w ngʿ ʿl- ḥbb w ʿl- h -ʾbl rʿy -h hgr m mdbr s¹nt myt ḃnt
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Translation
By Rbʾl son of Ḥnn son of Ẓʿn son of Ḫyḏ son of ʿḏr and he went to water cautious of drought, then (again) in Aquarius, then Aries, then Libra, and then Libra (again, i.e. for two years in a row), during which he grieved in pain for a loved one and for the camels, which he pastured, having migrated from the inner desert, the year Ḃnt died.
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Editio Princeps
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Associated Remains
Cairn 4

  • Al-Jallad, A. An Ancient Arabian Zodiac. The Constellations in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Part II. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 27, 2016: 84–106.
  • [ASWS] ʿAwād [Awad], M. Dirāsat nuqūš ṣafawiyyah ǧadīdah min ǧanūb wādī sārah/ al-bādiyah al-ʾurdunniyyah aš-šamāliyyah. Unpublished MA thesis, Yarmouk University. 1999.
Site
The southern part of Wādī Sārah, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1998
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0031628
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