BES20 1634
Text Information
- Siglum
- BES20 1634
- Transliteration
-
l ʿwḏn bn nẓr bn ʿwḏ{n} w nẓr h- dr s¹nt h- ʾhdy ʿ<>bd w whblh f gdḍf s¹lm
Josef Bloomfield
- Translation
-
By ʿwḏn son of Nẓr son of ʿwḏn and he kept watch at this place in the year of the leaders ʿbd and Whblh and so Gdḍf [grant] security
Josef Bloomfield
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The term ʾhdy has not been attested previously, but is presumably the plural of hdy, leader. Nevertheless, in this context, one would typically expect a dual *hdyn, hdn (?), given that only two names are listed. The name immediately after ʾhdy could be ʿ<>bd in which the letter after ʿ has been destroyed, perhaps because it wasn’t clear enough. 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 1634,' ed. A. Al-Jallad and M.C.A. Macdonald, OCIANA, 02 Jul, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/45566. Accessed: 18 Mar, 2026.