BES20 360

Text Information

Siglum
BES20 360
Transliteration
l qḥs² bn ḥḍg w wgm kbr ʿ- ʾs²yʿ -h ʾl ḍf {w} {r}{b}{ḍ} {h}----{b}
Josef Bloomfield
Translation
By Qḥs² son of Ḥḍg and he grieved greatly for his companions of the lineage group Ḍf {and} {Rbḍ} h----b
Josef Bloomfield
Language and Script
Safaitic 1

Interpretation

Commentary
The author seems to have written d instead of l in the preposition ʿl. Given the standard formula reads wgm ʿl-, this mistake has been corrected in the reading. Unfortunately the end of the inscription is not clear in the photographs so cannot be read. Josef Bloomfield

Editio Princeps
OCIANA
Field Collector
BES20 team

  • [BES20] Inscriptions recorded during the Badia Epigraphic Survey 2020 and published here
Site
Wādī Mismā al-Sharqī, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
2020
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Updated 02 Jul, 2025 by OCIANA

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Bloomfield, Josef. 'BES20 360.' OCIANA. 02 Jul, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/44287. Accessed: 29 Aug, 2025.