BES20 1395
Text Information
- Siglum
- BES20 1395
- Transliteration
-
l m{l}k bn zgr h- dr h- ġzz
Josef Bloomfield
- Translation
-
By {Mlk} son of Zgr [who was in] this place on the raid
Josef Bloomfield
- Language and Script
- Safaitic 1
Interpretation
- Commentary
-
The l of mlk seems to have been inserted between the m and k, and therefore is curved in shape. An alternative reading of mġk seems unlikely.
Josef Bloomfield
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Field Collector
- BES20 team
- Technique
- Chiselled
- Direction of Script
- left to right
- 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
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Genealogy, Present in a place, Raiding
- Download Images
Updated
25 Aug, 2025
by
Michael Macdonald
Cite this Site
Bloomfield, Josef. 'BES20 1395.' OCIANA. 25 Aug, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/45326. Accessed: 10 Sep, 2025.