BES19s 50
Text Information
- Siglum
- BES19s 50
- Transliteration
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l ḫlf bn gnʾl bn ḫdmt bn trml bn s¹ry bn s¹lm bn s¹fd bn rfʾt s¹nt ʿbdt w h lt mḥlt l- ḏ yʿwr h- s¹fr
Adam Abate - Translation
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By Ḫlf son of Gnʾl son of Ḫdmt son of Trml son of S¹ry son of S¹lm son of S¹fd son of Rfʾt, the year of ʿbdt, so, O Lt, dearth be to the one who would efface this writing
Adam Abate
- Language and Script
- Safaitic 2
Interpretation
- Commentary
The author of this inscription is the brother of the author of inscription BES19s 49, although the geneaology here is extended by two generations. The authors of both inscriptions inscribe identical curses. The inscription is dated to "the year of ʿbdt," which must be the Nabataean regnal name ʿObodat = 𐢗𐢃𐢅𐢞, Οβοδας. There were three Nabataean kings by this name, but only two reigned long enough to have been known by the inhabitants of the Ḥarrah, Obodas I (r. 96 to 85 BC) and Obodas III (r. 30 to 9 BC). The inscription cannot be precisely dated as we cannot know what 'the year' here signified, whether to the king's accession or death, or which ʿbdt was intended. The inscription therefore can only be roughly dated to the 1st c. BCE.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Field Collector
- BES19s team
- Technique
- Scratched
- Direction of Script
- Boustrophedon
- Associated Signs
- seven lines
- Associated Inscriptions
- [BES19s] Inscriptions recorded during the summer season of the Badia Epigraphic Survey 2019
- Site
- Firʿ Wādī al-Ḫuḍarī, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- June 2019
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Curse, Date (s¹nt), Deity, Genealogy, Outside peoples
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Updated
15 Feb, 2025
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Adam Abate