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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

AWS 395

Text Information

Siglum
AWS 395
Transliteration
l mʿn bn ẓby bn mʿn w wgd s¹fr ʾb ʾm -h f bʾs¹ m ẓll
Translation
By Mʿn son of Ẓby son of Mʿn and he found the writing of his mother's father and so he was miserable overshadowed (with grief)

Interpretation

Commentary
The expression ʾb ʾm-h is interesting since it implies that there was no separate word for a maternal grandfather parallel to ʿm for paternal grandfather. It occurs again in SIJ 711 and AWS 125.

Provenance
Wādī as-Sūʿ
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Associated Remains
Cairn 3

  • ʿAlūlū [Alulu], Ġ.M.Y. Dirāsat nuqūš ṣafawīyyah jadīdah min wādī al-sūʿ ǧanūb sūrīyyah. Unpublished M.A. thesis, Yarmouk University. 1996.
Site
Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria
Date Found
1995
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0031069
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