WFSG 2.1

Siglum: WFSG 2.1
Transliteration: l ʾyb bn tm bn s²ʿlh bn ḥy bn ʾyb ḏ- ʾl s¹lm w ʾs²rq f ḥll w wqʿ
Translation: By ʾyb son of Tm son of S²ʿlh son of Ḥy son of ʾyb of the lineage of S¹lm and he migrated to the inner desert and then camped and carved his name

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: WSFG 2.1: ʾyb ḏ- ʾl bn mwʾs² bqr ḥll w wqṣ "ʾyb ibn Mwʾs²bkr. He encamped and had his neck broken"; JaS 5 commentary p. 202: w wqʿ "and [he] fell". CSNS 1 commentary, p. 165: "of the tribe of S¹lm. And he went eastwards and he encamped and stopped for the night [here]". MST 6 n. 26: "and he migrated to the inner desert and then camped and wrote his name".
Commentary: See the discussion of the word wqʿ in MST 6, n. 26.

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Site: "About 100 miles [160 km] north-east of ... Amman and about 5 miles [8 km] off the road" (Worrell p. 217), Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan