GBW 2

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Siglum: GBW 2
Transliteration: l ys¹lm bn ġṯ ḏ ʾl ʾty w wrd h- nhy s¹nt brḥ wrṯn h- rm w ḏkr ns¹r w ʾlhh w wrd h- ʾwl ʾns¹
Al-Ghul 2021
Translation: By Ys¹lm son of Ġṯ of the lineage of ʾty and he went down to the pool, the year Wrṯn left to h-Rm, and he remembered Ns¹r and ʾlhh, and he went down to the water as the first of (all) people
Al-Ghul 2021
Language and Script: Safaitic 3

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: Al-Ghul 2021: Trans. '...and he remembered Ns¹r and ʾlhh, and he went down to the water as the first of (all) people.'
Commentary: ʾns¹: The syntax of h- ʾwl ʾns¹ is unexpected and the phrase 'first of all people' would more likely have been rendered ʾwl h-ʾns¹. I suggest instead that the clitic pronoun -h refers back to the pool nhy and that ʾwl ʾns¹ is an adverbial phrase meaning 'during the first part of ʾns¹. As such, ʾns¹ would be a time period.
Ahmad Al-Jallad

Associated Inscriptions

[GBW] Al-Ghul, O. Water installations and transhumance in four new Safaitic inscriptions from Birak al-Wisād. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 32, 2021: 354-361.

Date Found: 2011
Current Location: In situ
Subjects: Apotropaic sign, Date (s¹nt), Genealogy, Lineage (ancestor), Memorial, Movement, Watering
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Updated 22 Dec, 2025 by Ahmad Al-Jallad

2021, Al-Ghul and Ahmad Al-Jallad. 'GBW 2.' OCIANA. 22 Dec, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/45866. Accessed: 18 Jan, 2026.