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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

MSTJ 12

Text Information

Siglum
MSTJ 12
Transliteration
l ġnm bn s²mt ḏ- ʾl ʿmrt w qṣṣ f h lt s¹lm
Translation
By Ġnm son of S²mt of the lineage of ʿmrt and he tracked and so O Lt [grant] security

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
MNH p. 348 and n. 286: on Nabataean-Safaitic bilinguals. MNH p. 359 and nn. 368-370: 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
Scratched

Associated Inscriptions
MSTJ 6-8 another face; 9-11; 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
#0026045
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