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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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