BES17 364
Text Information
- Siglum
- BES17 364
- Transliteration
-
l ṣʿb bn ẓnʾl bn rgl w dfn bnt -h f h lt ġyrt
OCIANA
- Translation
-
By Ṣʿb son of Ẓnʾl son of Rgl and he buried his daughter, so, O Lt, [grant] a blood-wit
OCIANA
- Language and Script
- Safaitic 2
Interpretation
- Commentary
-
dfn: This is the first attestation of this burial verb, cognate with Classical Arabic dafana 'he buried.'
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Field Collector
- BES17 team
- Technique
- Lightly scratched
- Direction of Script
- Boustrophedon
- [BES17] Inscriptions recorded during the Badia Epigraphic Survey 2017 and published here
- Site
- Wādī Suwayʿid, Al-Ḍuwaylah area, Jordan
- Date Found
- 2017
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Genealogy, Women, Funerary, Prayer, Deity
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0054298
Updated
14 Jul, 2026
by
Ahmad Al-Jallad
Cite this Site
Ahmad Al-Jallad and OCIANA, 'BES17 364,' ed. A. Al-Jallad and M.C.A. Macdonald, OCIANA, 14 Jul, 2026. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/29540. Accessed: 24 Jul, 2026.