BES20 1271
Text Information
- Siglum
- BES20 1271
- Transliteration
-
l yʿs²b bn ztn w s²ty h- tnf f ṣyr h- nḫl
Josef Bloomfield
- Translation
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By Yʿs²b son of Ztn and he spent the winter at h- Tnf [or in the area of the desert without herbage] and so returned to water at this valley
Josef Bloomfield
- Language and Script
- Safaitic 1
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The meaning of h- tnf here is uncertain. The term has not previously been discovered. It may be that h- tnf is a place name. An alternative reading would be similar to the Classical Arabic tanūfah, a ‘desert destitute of vegetable produce and of water’ (Lane 319a). Josef Bloomfield
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Field Collector
- BES20 team
- 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
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OCIANA
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Bloomfield, Josef. 'BES20 1271.' OCIANA. 02 Jul, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/45202. Accessed: 20 Jan, 2026.