MSTJ 8
Text Information
- Siglum
- MSTJ 8
- Transliteration
- l ḥnn bn ʿḏrʾl bn gbny ḏ- ʾl ʿmrt w nẓr
- Translation
- By Ḥnn son of ʿḏrʾl son of Gbny of the lineage of ʿmrt and he kept watch
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- MSTJ 8: gbnyn for gbny MNH p. 359 and nn. 368-369: on the relationship between the author of the Safaitic inscriptions and the author of the Nabataean inscriptions.
- Commentary
- It seems likely that the n read by the edition at the end of the third name is incidental.
- Provenance
- Burquʿ
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Chiselled
- Associated Inscriptions
- MSTJ 6-7; 9-13 another face; 14 another face; Nabataean MNT 1; 2a-c
- Macdonald, M.C.A. & Harding, G.L. More Safaitic Texts from Jordan. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 21, 1976: 119-133.
- Site
- Jordan
- Current Location
- Amman Museum J. (13206)
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0026041
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