JaS 52
Text Information
- Siglum
- JaS 52
- Transliteration
-
l bʿr bn rm bn ʿ{r}ṭ bn s²ml w ḫyṭ l- ʿqlt
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- Translation
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By Bʿr son of Rm son of {ʿrṭ} son of S²ml and he journeyed without stopping to a small depression where rain water gathers.
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- JaS: ʿrṭ for ʿ{r}ṭ.
- Commentary
- The second letter of the third name is an acute angle and could be an s¹ or possibly a b. For ʿqlt compare Arabic ʿaqūlah "a small depression where rainwater gathers" or ʿaqlah "an area where water is close to the surface" (both Groom 1983: 42).
- Editio Princeps
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- Technique
- Incised & direct ham.
- Direction of Script
- Coil (edge)
- Groom, N. A Dictionary of Arabic Topography and Placenames. A Transliterated Arabic-English Dictionary with an Arabic Glossary of Topographical Words and Placenames. London: Longman / Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1983.
- [JaS] Jamme, A. Safaitic Inscriptions from the Country of ʿArʿar and Raʾs al-ʿAnānīyah. Pages 41-109, 611-637 in F. Altheim & R. Stiehl (eds), Christentum am Roten Meer. 1. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1971.
- Site
- ʿArʿar, Saudi Arabia
- Current Location
- Collection of Ibrāhīm al-Ḥawwat
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0010049
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