AMAD 1
Text Information
- Siglum
- AMAD 1
- Alternative Sigla
- BES19s 85
- Transliteration
-
l ġyrʾl bn s¹lm bn ġyrʾl w wgm ʿl- ġyrʾl w rʿy h- ʾbl w wrd rbʾ{l} b- ʾdr
Ahmad Al-Jallad (2020b)
- Translation
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By Ġyrʾl son of S¹lm son of Ġyrʾl and he grieved for Ġyrʾl and pastured the camels and went to water at {Rbʾl} during ʾAdar (February–March)
Ahmad Al-Jallad (2020b)
- Language and Script
- Safaitic 2
Interpretation
- Commentary
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See Al-Jallad (2020b) for a detailed discussion of this inscription and its relevance for understanding Arabic-Aramaic language contact in pre-Islamic times.
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Editio Princeps
- Al-Jallad (2020b)
- Field Collector
- BES19s team
- Technique
- Incised
- Direction of Script
- Boustrophedon
- [AMAD] Al-Jallad, A.M. The month ʾdr in Safaitic and the status of spirantization in ‘Arabian’ Aramaic. Aramaic Studies 28, 2020b: 147–170
- [BES19s] Inscriptions recorded during the summer season of the Badia Epigraphic Survey 2019
- Site
- Wādī Salmā, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 2019
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Domestic animals, Genealogy, Grieving, Pasturing, Time, Weather
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Updated
13 Mar, 2026
by
Ahmad Al-Jallad
Cite this Site
Ahmad Al-Jallad, 'AMAD 1,' ed. A. Al-Jallad and M.C.A. Macdonald, OCIANA, 13 Mar, 2026. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/46032. Accessed: 09 Apr, 2026.