BES20 451
Text Information
- Siglum
- BES20 451
- Transliteration
-
l ġṯ bn nhb bn ʿgr bn ẓnʾl bn s¹r w w{g}{d} s¹fr s¹ʿdʾl f nwgm
Josef Bloomfield
- Translation
-
By Ġṯ son of Nhb son of ʿgr son of Ẓnʾl son of S¹r and {he found} the writing of S¹ʿdʾl and so let us grieve
Josef Bloomfield
- Language and Script
- Safaitic 2
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The author seems to have initially forgotten and later inserted the l of s¹ʿdʾl between the previous letter (ʾ) and the following f. The verb nwgm is a rare case of the prefix conjugation used in this context. 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
Cite this Site
Bloomfield, Josef. 'BES20 451.' OCIANA. 02 Jul, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/44378. Accessed: 19 Jan, 2026.