NSR 107

Siglum
NSR 107
Transliteration
l bgrt bn mġyr w ṣyr w ṣyd ʿgl
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Translation
By Bgrt son of Mġyr and he travelled to permanent water and hunted an oryx calf
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
NSR: w ṣyr w ṣyd ʿgl "wa-ṣāra (ʿāra) wa-ṣāda ʿiglan". H unp.: w ṣyr w ṣyd ʿgl "And he returned and hunted calves? or quickly ?".
Commentary
In Classical Arabic ʿiǧl means "a calf ... both domestic and wild" (Lane 1964b). Lane says that when applied to a wild animal it is to what he calls "a bovine antelope", that is the Arabian oryx. Note that the male oryx is often referred to as a ṯr "bull" (as well as dṣy) in Safaitic.

Editio Princeps
Ed. pr.

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Curving

  • [NSR] Abdallah, Y.M. Al-nuqūsh al-ṣafawiyya fī maǧmūʿat ǧāmiʿat al-riyāḍ ʿām 1966. M.A.Thesis, American University of Beirut, 1970. [Unpublished]. 1970.
  • [Lane] Lane, E.W. An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived from the Best and Most Copious Eastern Sources. (Volume 1 in 8 parts [all published]). London: Williams & Norgate, 1863-1893.
Site
Al-ʿUwayṣī, Saudi Arabia
Date Found
1966
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0010481
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