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MSTJ 11

Text Information

Siglum
MSTJ 11
Transliteration
l hnʾ bn mʿn bn hnʾ bn s²ḥtr w ʾʿwr b- ʾbl f h [[]] gdḍf s¹lm w mgdt w ʿwr m ḫbl m ʿl- ḥwq
Translation
By Hnʾ son of Mʿn son of Hnʾ son of S²ḥtr and he was in danger of being plundered because [he had] many camels. And so O Gdḍf [grant] security and abundance and blind whoever damages spoils effaces

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
MNH p. 359 and n. 368: on the relationship between the author of the Safaitic inscriptions and the author of the Nabataean inscriptions.

Provenance
Burquʿ
Original Reading Credit
Ed. pr.
Original Translation Credit
Ed. pr

Technique
Incised & scratched

Associated Inscriptions
MSTJ 6-8 another face; 9-10; 12-13; 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
#0026044
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