BES20 1561
Text Information
- Siglum
- BES20 1561
- Transliteration
-
h yṯʿ w hbl ḥgg ġnmt bn ḫzn h- s¹nt
Josef Bloomfield
- Translation
-
By Ġnmt son of Ḫzn O Yṯʿ and Hbl Ġnmt son of Ḫzn celebrated a festival [for you] this year
Josef Bloomfield
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The inscription seems to contain the first reference to the deity Hbl in Safaitic. Whilst there is no way to prove it, it seems likely that Hbl refers to the well-known pre-Islamic deity Hubal, the worship of whom Islamic tradition centres at the Meccan kaʿbah. 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
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Updated
02 Jul, 2025
by
OCIANA
Cite this Site
Josef Bloomfield, 'BES20 1561,' ed. A. Al-Jallad and M.C.A. Macdonald, OCIANA, 02 Jul, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/45493. Accessed: 06 Apr, 2026.