KhNSB 1
Text Information
- Siglum
- KhNSB 1
- Alternative Sigla
- W.Bayir-YU 1
- Transliteration
- l qdmt bn km ḏ- ʾl s²ʾm w rʿy ʾbʾr
- Translation
- By Qdmt son of Km of the lineage of S²ʾm and he pastured an area of wells
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- Khraysheh 1996: 11: mentioned but not read. Hayajneh 2021 gave this inscription and KhNSB 2 (with which it is a bilingual), a new (joint) siglum: W.Bayir-YU 1.
- Commentary
- This text and KhNSB 1 form a Safaitic-Nabataean bilingual, at least as far as the personal names.
- Provenance
- On a hill east of Wādī Bāyir, about 4 km south of the Bāyir police station
- Associated Inscriptions
- Al-Khraysheh, F.H. Eine safaitisch-nabatäische bilingue Inschrift aus Jordanien. Pages 109-114 in N. Nebes (ed.), Arabia Felix. Beiträge zur Sprache und Kultur des vorislamischen Arabien. Festschrift Walter W. Müller zum 60. Geburtstag. Unter Mitarbeit von R. Richter, I. Kottsieper und M. Maraqten. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1994.
- Khraysheh, F.H. al- Qirāʾāt li-nuqūš nabaṭiyya wa-suryāniyya min al-bādiyyat al-urduniyya. Newsletter of the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University 19, 1996
- Hayajneh, H. Two epigraphic miscellanies from Wādī Bāyir — Southeast Jordan and the occurrence of the word hfrk in Ancient North Arabian. Pages 187–196 in C Bührig, M. van Ess, I. Gerlach, A. Hausleiter & B. Müller-Neuhof (eds), Klänge der Archäologie. Festschrift für Ricardo Eichmann. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2021
- Site
- Jordan
- Date Found
- 1993
- Current Location
- Yarmouk University, Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology
- Subjects
- Genealogy, Lineage, Pasturing
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0025962
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