JaS 61

Siglum
JaS 61
Alternative Sigla
ThSaf 57, ThNSM.III 7
Transliteration
l ḫlflh bn ʾbyn w ṣwy w dṯʾ w kmʾ
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Translation
By Ḫlflh son of ʾbyn and he built a cairn and he spent the season of the later rains and fed on truffles
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
MST p. 3: w dṯʾ w kmʾ - and he spent the dṯʾ [here] and fed on truffles JaS: ḥmʾ for kmʾ. Translation from w ṣwy "And he has withered and spent the spring [here] and (the water) was muddy". ThSaf 57: as ThNSM.III 7: ḫlflh bn ʾbyn{r} w ṣwy w dṯʾ w ḥmʾ "wa nazala haḏihi-l ʾarḍa al-murtafaʿa wa rabaʿa wa ḥamā (jaʿalahā ʾarḍan muḥamiya)"

Editio Princeps
MST

Technique
Unidentifiable
Direction of Script
Curving

  • [ThNSM III] Al-Ḏīyīb [Al-Theeb], S.A. Nuqūš ṣafawiyah ǧadīdah min matḥaf qism al-āṯār wa-ʾl-matāḥif bi-ǧāmiʿat al-malik saʿūd (maǧmūʿa raqm 3). Maǧallah ǧāmiʿat al-malik saʿūd 9, 1997: 259-288 [Arabic section].
  • [ThSaf] Al-Ḏīyīb [Al-Theeb], S.A. Nuqūš ṣafawīyah min šamālī ʾl-mamlakat al-ʿarabīyat al-saʿūdīyah. Al-Jawf: Muʾasasah ʿAbd al-raḥmān al-Sudairī al-ḫairīyah, 2003.
  • [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.
  • [MST] Macdonald, M.C.A. The Seasons and Transhumance in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 3rd. series, 2, 1992: 1-11.
Site
ʿArʿar, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
Collection of Ibrāhīm al-ʿAbdu l-ʿAzīz al-ʿAwšan
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0010066
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