BES20 336

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Siglum
BES20 336
Transliteration
l ḥyn bn ʾnʿm bn ys¹mʿl bn yṯʿt bn nl bn ḥw{l}n w wgm ʿl- qḏy f h lt ʿyrt
Michael C.A. Macdonald
Translation
By Ḥyn son of ʾnʿm son of Ys¹mʿl son of Yṯʿt son of Nl son of {Ḥwln} and he grieved for Qḏy and so O Lt [grant] blood money
Michael C.A. Macdonald
Language and Script
Safaitic 1

Interpretation

Commentary

We have a number of inscriptions by members of this author's family. Thus, ASWS 328 is by his father and ASWS 329 by an uncle (note that the penultimate name in the genealogy in these two texts was miscopied as "ntn" rather than "nl"). BES20 425 is by this author's son and BES17 1988 and RWQ 332 by more distant relatives. Al-Jallad and Jaworska 2019: 76 suggest that ʿyrt can sometimes be a variant of ġyrt "abundance" or "blood money" and since the author is grieving for someone, the latter may be an appropriate translation here. 

Michael C.A. Macdonald

Editio Princeps
OCIANA
Field Collector
BES20 team

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
left to right and curving

Associated Inscriptions

  • [BES20] Inscriptions recorded during the Badia Epigraphic Survey 2020 and published here
Site
Wādī Mismā al-Sharqī, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
2020
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Genealogy, Grieving, Prayer
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Macdonald, Michael C.A.. 'BES20 336.' OCIANA. 17 Jul, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/44263. Accessed: 17 Jan, 2026.