BES20 492

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Siglum: BES20 492
Transliteration: l ḥs¹m bn ʿwḏt w rʿy h- {r}ḥbt h- ʿs¹t
Josef Bloomfield
Translation: By Ḥs¹m son of ʿwḏt and he pastured this difficult shallow depression
Josef Bloomfield
Language and Script: Safaitic 4

Interpretation

Commentary: The first letter of rḥbt has a short extraneous line that makes it appear like a k. But kḥbt does not seem to make any sense in this context. The penultimate letter is almost certainly a s¹ of which the upper part of the stroke at the top has been broken. Thus ʿs¹t which Al-Jallad and Jaworska take as "hardship" and which would here be an adjective describing the rḥbt.
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
Subjects: Genealogy, Pasturing, Topographic features
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Updated 21 Jul, 2025 by Michael Macdonald

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Bloomfield, Josef. 'BES20 492.' OCIANA. 21 Jul, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/44419. Accessed: 16 Jan, 2026.