BES20 1300
Text Information
- Siglum
- BES20 1300
- Transliteration
-
l brd w ḫṭṭ h- nqt
Josef Bloomfield
- Translation
-
By Brd and he carved this she-camel
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Language and Script
- Safaitic 1
Interpretation
- Commentary
-
The verb ḫṭṭ is attested here for the first time meaning literally to carve. Contextually, it refers most often to the Safaitic text but can also refer to the drawings as well.
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Field Collector
- BES20 team
- Technique
- Hammered
- Direction of Script
- Boustrophedon
- Associated Drawings
- drawing of a she-camel
- [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
- Drawing of a domestic animal, Name only
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Updated
18 Jul, 2025
by
Ahmad Al-Jallad
Cite this Site
Al-Jallad, Ahmad and Josef Bloomfield. 'BES20 1300.' OCIANA. 18 Jul, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/45231. Accessed: 17 Aug, 2025.