BES20 480

Siglum
BES20 480
Transliteration
l ḥrb bn ws¹ʿ h- bkrt w h ʾlt ḥy w m{g}{d}{t} f yʿwr m ʿwr
Josef Bloomfield
Translation
By ḥrb son of Ws¹ʿ is the she-camel and O ʾlt [grant] long life and {abundance} and so may he who effaced [this inscription] be blinded
Josef Bloomfield
Language and Script
Safaitic 1

Interpretation

Commentary
The reading of mgdt is unclear due to damage to the stone. The final t seems to be to the left of f. The inscription includes a peculiar grammatical feature in its formation of the curse formula. With the use of m as the relative pronounce in the formula, one would expect one of the following variations (see Al-Jallad 2015: 208): ʿwr m ʿwr; ʿwr l- m ʿwr; ʿwr m yʿwr or ʿwr l-m yʿwr. Here we find a reversal of the final variation above, where the first verb (yʿwr) is not in the imperative but in the prefix conjugation, whereas the verb in the relative clause is not in the prefix conjugation. Josef Bloomfield

Editio Princeps
OCIANA
Field Collector
BES20 team

Associated Drawings
she-camel drawing
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
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Updated 02 Jul, 2025 by OCIANA

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Bloomfield, Josef. 'BES20 480.' OCIANA. 02 Jul, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/44407. Accessed: 09 Oct, 2025.