AZNG 1
Text Information
- Siglum
- AZNG 1
- Transliteration
- l ḫlṣt bn mʿn ḏ- ʾl s¹ʿd w mrd ṯlṯ s¹nn mn qbl nfs¹ ẓlm f h lt w ds²r s¹lm l- ḏ ġnẓ ẓlm
- Translation
- By Ḫlṣt son of Mʿn of the lineage of S¹ʿd and Nepos who was oppressive faced a rebellion for three years so O Lt and Ds²r keep him safe who was distressed by oppression
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- AZNG: mrd ṯlṯ s¹nn mn qbl nfs¹ ẓlm f h lt w ds²r s¹lm l-ġnẓ ẓlm "he rebelled three years against Nepos who is a tyrant so O Lt and Ds²r [grant] security to whom who escaped tyranny"
- Commentary
- The translation here is that of Al-Jallad 2015: 152, 166–167, 222. However, it should be noted that a statement referring to something which does not explicitly involve the author ("and Nepos who was oppressive faced a rebellion for three years") is extremely rare in the Safaitic inscriptions.
- Provenance
- "At the end of Wādī al-Ḥashād, 45 km North-East of aṣ-Ṣafāwī ... near the northeastern border of Jordan" (AZNG p. 155).
- Original Reading Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Special Letter Forms
- Shallow horizontal ẓ; 3-stroke s²
- Technique
- Chiselled
- Associated Signs
- 2 circles between lines 1 and 2
- Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
- ʿAbbādī [Abbadi], Ṣ. & Zayadine, F. Nepos the Governor of the Provincia Arabia in a Safaitic Inscription?. Semitica 46, 1996: 155-164, pl. 17.
- Site
- Jordan
- Date Found
- Wādī al-Ḥashād
- Current Location
- Al-Mafraq Antiquities Office and Museum
- Subjects
- Deity, Foreign personal name(s), Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Lineage, Outside peoples, Time
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0014917
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