BES15 161
Text Information
- Siglum
- BES15 161
- Transliteration
-
l ms¹k bn zmhr bn yzn bn tʾm w wgm ʿl- ʾb -h w ʿl- ʾḫ -h ḏ ʾl ʿd
Ahmad Al-Jallad 2025a
- Translation
-
By Ms¹k son of Zmhr son of Yzn son of Tʾm and he grieved for his father and for his brother of the lineage of ʿd
Ahmad Al-Jallad 2025a
- Language and Script
- Safaitic 1
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
OCIANA 1: l ms¹k bn zmhr bn yzr bn tʾm w wgm ʿl- ʾb -h w ʿl- ʾḫ -h ḏ ʾlʿd, trans: 'By Ms¹k son of Zmhr son of Yzr son of Tʾm and he grieved for his father and for his brother who ʾlʿd'
- Commentary
This inscription attests the first reference to the "lost" Arabian tribe of ʿād in Safaitic. The tribal group is known from two other Hismaic inscriptions. See Al-Jallad (2025) for a full discussion. See this lecture for a presentation of the history of ʿād to the general public.
- Editio Princeps
- Al-Jallad 2025a
- Field Collector
- BES15 team
- Technique
- Carved
- Direction of Script
- Curving edge
- Associated Inscriptions
- Al-Jallad, A. The Epigraphy of the Tribe of ʿĀd [النقوش القديمة التي تذكر عاد]. Athīrat: Journal of Ancient Arabia, 1(1-2), 2025a: 281-289.
- [BES15] Inscriptions recorded during the Badia Epigraphic Survey 2015 and published here
- Site
- Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 2015
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Genealogy, Grieving, Historical, Lineage
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0038830
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Updated
28 Feb, 2025
by
Ahmad Al-Jallad
Cite this Site
Al-Jallad, Ahmad. 'BES15 161.' OCIANA. 28 Feb, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/41338. Accessed: 18 Jun, 2025.