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QSZB 8

Text Information

Siglum
QSZB 8
Transliteration
l ʾy{s¹} bn gʿrm w wgm ʿl- ʾḫ -h ʾs¹ w ʿl- hnʾh w ʿl- ʿmt w ʿl- tʿmr
Translation
By ʾys¹ son of Gʿrm and he grieved for his brother ʾs¹ and for Hnʾh and for ʿmt and for Tʿmr

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
QSZB 8: hṣlh for hnʾh; ḏʿmr for tʿmr
Commentary
The photograph is far from clear in places but the reading offered here seems plausible. Many of the letters have "square" forms. Where QSZB read ṣ there seems to be a clear ʾ, and they give no explanation of why, in the last name, they read as ḏ a sign which in their tracing appears like a ṭ. In fact, there is not room for the sign in their tracing and a ṭ can be seen clearly. The name hnʾh is found in Dadanitic (see HE 75 and QṢ unp 3 and 5).

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Associated Inscriptions

  • Al-Qudrah, Ḥ.M., Ṣadaqah [Sadaqah], I.S. & Al-Zuʿbī [Alzoubi], M.A. Bnʿtm rock inscriptions. An analytic study of new discovered Safaitic inscriptions from Deir al-Kahf in the northeast of Jordan. Acta Antiqua Hungarica 54, 2014: 55-72.
Site
Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0032593
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