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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

ZN 15

Siglum
ZN 15
Transliteration
l s²gt bn ṣʿd bn s²{ḫ}{r} w w[g]m ʿl- ʾnʿm w ʿl- ʾm -h w ʿl- ṣḥrt w ʿl- bnt ʾḫ -h s¹byt
Translation
By S²gt son of Ṣʿd son of S²ḫr and he grieved for ʾnʿm and for his mother and for Ṣḥrt and for his brother's daughter who was a prisoner

Interpretation

Commentary
ZN 8 and 9 are on the same face, most of which is taken up by 8, with 9 squeezed in along one edge, in small scratched letters. This text begins in chiselled letters and then changes to incised. Note that his neice appears to have been held captive (s¹byt)

  • 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
#0036066
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