BES19s 19
Text Information
- Siglum
- BES19s 19
- Transliteration
-
l ks¹l w ṣwy w rʿy tl
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Translation
-
By Ks¹l and he built a cairn and pastured on the small hill
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Language and Script
- Safaitic 1
Interpretation
- Commentary
- tl: Compare with Classical Arabic tallun 'a small hill' > English Tell '(archaeological) mound'; the absence of the definite article on tl may suggest this variety of Safaitic lacked the feature (see Al-Jallad 2018c: 10ff). Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Editio Princeps
- Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Special Letter Forms
- r
- Technique
- Carved
- Direction of Script
- Curving boustrophedon
- Al-Jallad, A. What is Ancient North Arabian? Pages 1-45 in D. Birnstiel and N. Pat-El (eds.), Re-Engaging Comparative Semitic and Arabic Studies. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2018
- Site
- Wādī Ruʿaylah, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- June 16, 2019
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Building, Definite article (unusual), Pasturing
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Updated
04 Dec, 2024
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Ahmad Al-Jallad
Cite this Site
Al-Jallad, Ahmad. 'BES19s 19.' OCIANA. 04 Dec, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/44072. Accessed: 08 Jan, 2026.