BES19s Grk 1

Text Information

Siglum
BES19s Grk 1
Alternative Sigla
OAM2 Grk 1
Transliteration
Ματρος Σαβανεο[ς]
Al-Jallad and Al-Manaser 2022
Translation
Maṭr, the Ṣabāḥite
Al-Jallad and Al-Manaser 2022
Language and Script
Greek/Greek

Interpretation

Commentary

The gentilic is written Σαβανεο instead of the expected Σαβαηνος; the author "misspelled η with ε, [then] he metathesized the ε and ν; finally, he seems to have omitted the final ς" (Al-Jallad and Al-Manaser 2022: 575). This inscription forms a partial bilingual text with BES19s 3.

Editio Princeps
Al-Jallad and Al-Manaser 2022

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Left to right

Associated Inscriptions

  • [OAM2] Al-Jallad, A. & Al-Manaser, A. Old Arabic Minutiae II: Greek-Safaitic Bilinguals and Language Contact in the Syro-Arabian Ḥarrah. Arabica 69, 2022: 567-590
  • [BES19s] Inscriptions recorded during the summer season of the Badia Epigraphic Survey 2019
Site
Wādī Ruʿaylah, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Lineage (nisbah)
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Updated 19 Dec, 2024 by Ahmad Al-Jallad