KhNSB 2

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: Khraysheh 1994: 111: adds a lām auctoris to his reading; rṣʿ "he grazed [?] (by the wells of Bāyir)" for rpʿ or rqʿ Khraysheh 1996: 11: mentioned but not read. Hayajneh 2009: 214 (repeated in Hayajneh 2021: 188): read rfʿ for Al-Khraysheh's rṣʿand translated " [the water from the wells of Bāyir]" Hayajneh 2021:
Commentary: This text and KhNSB 1 form a Safaitic-Nabataean bilingual, at least as far as the personal names. The penultimate letter cannot be a ṣ as read by Al-Khraysheh and looks more like a p or a q. However, it is difficult to interpret the possible words these readings produce.

Provenance: On a hill east of Wādī Bāyir, about 4 km south of the Bāyir police station

Associated Inscriptions

Al-Khraysheh, F.H. Eine safaitisch-nabatäische bilingue Inschrift aus Jordanien. Pages 109-114 in N. Nebes (ed.), Arabia Felix. Beiträge zur Sprache und Kultur des vorislamischen Arabien. Festschrift Walter W. Müller zum 60. Geburtstag. Unter Mitarbeit von R. Richter, I. Kottsieper und M. Maraqten. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1994.
Hayajneh, H. Ancient North Arabian-Nabataean bilingual inscriptions from southern Jordan. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 39, 2009: 203-222.
Al-Khraysheh, F. Qirāʾāt li-nuqūš nabaṭīyyah wa-suriyāniyyah min al-bādiyah al-ʾurduniyyah. Newsletter of the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology Yarmouk University 19, 1996: 10–12.
Hayajneh, H. Two epigraphic miscellanies from Wādī Bāyir — Southeast Jordan and the occurrence of the word hfrk in Ancient North Arabian. Pages 187–196 in C Bührig, M. van Ess, I. Gerlach, A. Hausleiter & B. Müller-Neuhof (eds), Klänge der Archäologie. Festschrift für Ricardo Eichmann. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2021

Date Found: 1993
Current Location: Yarmouk University, Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology
Subject: Genealogy
Script: Nabataean
Old OCIANA ID: #0056729
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