Khunp 1

Siglum: Khunp 1
Transliteration: l ʾdm bn whbʾl bn ḫl bn whbl bn ʾdm bn ḥḍg bn s¹wr w ḫrṣ f {h} lt nqmt m- ḏkr bn ẓlm f h lt nqmt w h bʿls¹mn w s²ʿhqm w ds²r w ʾlh tm w gdḍf w gdnbṭ w ʾlh h- fls¹ nqmt w ʿwr ḏ yʿwr h- s¹fr w s¹ḥq w mḥq w nqʾt b- w{d}d ḏ yḫbl m- h- s¹fr
Translation: By ʾdm son of Whbʾl son of Ḫl son of Whbl son of ʾdm son of Ḥḍg son of S¹wr and he kept watch so {O} Lt let there be retribution against Ḏkr son of Ẓlm and again O Lt let there be retribution and O Bʿls¹mn and S²ʿhqm and Ds²r and the god of Tm and Gd-Ḍf and Gd-Nbṭ and the god h-Fls¹ let there be retribution and blind him who would efface this inscription and may ruin and misfortune befall him who would efface any part of this inscription and may he be thrown out of the grave by a loved one

Interpretation

Commentary: H. Hayajneh and M. I Ababneh (2015) read ʾlh h-fls¹ as ʾlh h-ġs¹n but this was shown to be impossible by Al-Jallad and Macdonald 2015 where the reading of the whole inscription given here was proposed and it is argued that the god h-Fls¹ was the deity al-Fals of the tribe of Ṭayyiʾ.

Provenance: Acording to Dr M.I. Ababneh, he rediscovered it in 1999 in the al-Ḥuṣayniyyāt area, east of Umm al-Jimāl, near the Jordanian-Syrian border.
Original Reading Credit: OCIANA
Original Translation Credit: OCIANA

Hayajneh, H. & ʿAbābnah [Ababneh], M.I. The “God of the Ġs¹n” in an ancient North Arabian inscription from the Ḥarra region — northeastern Jordan. Pages 259-276 in D. Gennequand & C.J. Robin (eds), Les Jafnides. Des rois arabes au service de Byzance (VIe siècle de l'ère chrétienne). Actes du colloque de Paris, 24–25 novembre 2008. (Orient et Méditerranée, 17). Paris: de Boccard, 2015.
Al-Jallad, A.M. & Macdonald, M.C.A. A few notes on the alleged occurrence of the group name ‘Ghassān’ in a Safaitic inscription. Archiv für Orientforschung 53, 2015: 152–157.

Date Found: 1990
Current Location: In situ
Subjects: Curse, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Outside peoples, Vengeance, Watch (keeping)
Script: Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID: #0024140
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