OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

ZN 5

Text Information

Siglum
ZN 5
Transliteration
l tm bn {ʾ}s²k bn ḥy bn ṭmh bn ms¹kʾl bn dʾy bn qdmʾl w rʿy h- ʾbl w {q}{y}{ẓ} ʿl- ḥ{g}y f h l[t] s¹lm w ----
Translation
By Tm son of ʾs²k son of Ḥy son of Ṭmh son of Ms¹kʾl son of Dʾy son of Qdmʾl and he pastured the camels and he spent the dry season at Ḥgy and O Lt [ grant] security and

Interpretation

Commentary
This text is written in incised letters, boustrophedon. Several extraneous lines cross the third and fourth names, confusing the reading but the letters can be made out.

  • Inscriptions recorded by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme in 1995 at Zemlat Nāṣir, and published here.
Site
Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0035873
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