OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

Ms 37

Text Information

Siglum
Ms 37
Transliteration
l ḫlf bn ḥrb bn ʾs¹ h- ḫṭṭ h yṯʿ ʿwr ḏ yʿwrn -h
Translation
By Ḫlf son of Ḥrb son of ʾs¹ is the carving O Yṯʿ blind those who would scratch it out

Interpretation

Commentary
Note the use of the 3rd person plural of the prefix conjugation in yʿwrn. On the drawing see Macdonald, in press a.

Provenance
Wādī Ḥa©ād
Original Reading Credit
Ed. pr.
Original Translation Credit
Ed. pr

Technique
Incised

Associated Drawings
Ms 37 d/1
Associated Inscriptions

  • Macdonald, M.C.A. Horses, asses, hybrids, and their uses in the ancient rock-art of the Syro-Arabian desert. in K. Linduff & P. Raulwing (eds), Equids in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and Arabia. Proceedings of a conference in memory of Mary Aitken Littauer. Oxford: BAR, 2019.
Site
Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Curse, Deity, Drawing of a domestic animal, Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0030120
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