Betts 9

Siglum
Betts 9
Transliteration
l zbnn ft{y} rmyn w wld h- m[ʿ]zy s¹nt ngy qṣr h- mdnt
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Translation
By Zbnn the {young servant of} Rmyn and he helped the goats give birth the year Caesar announced the province
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Commentary
For this interpretation of s¹nt ngy qṣr h- mdnt see Macdonald 2014: 154–155. If this is correct, it would date these inscriptions to AD 111 when the emperor Trajan announced Arabia adquisita, even though the Nabataean kingdom had been in Roman hands since AD 106, and this almost immediately came to be used as the starting point of the era of Provincia Arabia (see, for instance the Greek and Nabataean funerary inscription dated to year 3 of the Province (Milik 1958: 243–246, no. 6).

Editio Princeps
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Associated Inscriptions
Betts 1-8

  • Macdonald, M.C.A. ‘Romans Go Home’? Rome and other ‘Outsiders’ as viewed from the Syro-Arabian Desert. Pages 145-163 in J.H.E. Dijkstra & G. Fisher (eds), Inside and Out. Interactions between Rome and the Peoples on the Arabian and Egyptian Frontiers in Late Antiquity. (Late Antique History and Religion, 8). Louvain: Peeters, 2014.
  • Milik, J.T. Nouvelles inscriptions nabatéennes. Syria 35, 1958: 227-251, pl. 18-21.
Site
WH Cairn 21 [?], Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0010514
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