RMenv.C 1

Siglum: RMenv.C 1
Alternative Sigla: MISS.B 1
Transliteration: l mnʿm bn {{ʾ}}rs²mnwt bn {{ʾ}}bgr bn {{ʾ}}ʿtl h- nbṭy
Translation: By Mnʿm son of {ʾrs²mnwt} son of {ʾbgr} son of {ʾʿtl} the Nabataean

Interpretation

Commentary: Published in Macdonald, Muʾazzin, Nehmé 1996: 444-449, as B1. See the commentary there. Each example of ʾ has one fork closed, making it look like a ṣ. The b and n of the first bn are joined as are the b and g of ʾbgr. On the element ʾrs² see Lipinski 1989. See RMenv.C 2, CSNS 661, BES17 560 and BES18 4 for other Safaitic inscriptions by people claiming to be "Nabataeans", and see the discussions in Macdonald 2009 II, 307, n. 28; 350, n. 302; 2009 IV, 185, n. 23, 186.

Associated Inscriptions

Macdonald, M.C.A. Nomads and the Ḥawrān in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods: A reassessment of the epigraphic evidence. Syria 70, 1993: 303-413. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda as Article II in M.C.A. Macdonald, Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia, (Variorum Collected Studies Series no. 906), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009].
Macdonald, M.C.A., Al Muʾazzin, M. & Nehmé, L. Les inscriptions safaïtiques de Syrie, cent quarante ans après leur découverte. Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres 1996: 435-494.
Lipinski, E. L'élément ʾRŠ dans l'anthroponymie carthaginoise. Pages 141-148 in M. Macuch, C. Müller-Kessler & B.G. Fragner (eds), Studia Semitica necnon Iranica Rudolpho Macuch septuagenario ab amicis et discipulis dedicata. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1989.
Macdonald, M.C.A. Some Reflections on Epigraphy and Ethnicity in the Roman Near East. Mediterranean Archaeology 11, 1998: 177-190. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda, as Article IV in Macdonald, M.C.A., Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia. (Variorum Collected Studies, 906). Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.]
Inscriptions recorded during the Badia Epigraphic Survey 2017 and published here
Inscriptions recorded during the Badia Epigraphic Survey 2018 and published here