BES25_MG1 2
Text Information
- Siglum
- BES25_MG1 2
- Transliteration
-
l rww bn ʿtm bn ʿḏrw
Sarah Abou-Zied
- Translation
-
By Rww son of ʿtm son of ʿḏrw
Sarah Abou-Zied
- Language and Script
- Mixed Safaitic/Hismaic
Interpretation
- Commentary
-
This appears to be carved in a mixed Safaitic-Hismaic script, displaying a Hismaic ḏ in the final name. Moreover, both the name of the author and his grandfather appear to represent wawation graphically.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Field Collector
- BES25 team
- Special Letter Forms
- Hismaic ḏ
- Technique
- Scratched
- Direction of Script
- Left to right
- [BES25_MG1] Inscriptions recorded during BES25 at Marabb al-Ghuṣayn Site 1
- Site
- MG 1 (Marabb al-Ghuṣayn 1), Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- June 2025
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
Updated
29 Jun, 2026
by
Ahmad Al-Jallad
Cite this Site
Sarah Abou-Zied, 'BES25_MG1 2,' ed. A. Al-Jallad and M.C.A. Macdonald, OCIANA, 29 Jun, 2026. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/46345. Accessed: 04 Aug, 2026.