SIT 38
Text Information
- Siglum
- SIT 38
- Transliteration
- l mtʿm bn ʾm w wḥd f h rḍy wqyt m- ( ) s²nʾ
- Translation
- By Mtʿm son of ʾm and he was alone and so o Rḍy [grant] protection from enemies
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- SIT: wqyt m s²nʾ for wqyt m ( ) s²nʾ. CEDS 605: JMAA VIII p.6: wqyt m rs²nʾ "[grant] preservation against rs²nʾ".
- Commentary
- There is a curve after the fourth m which JMAA VIII has read as a r but it is most likely that it is a copyist's error or extraneous to the inscription.
- Provenance
- Tapline
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Technique
- Unidentifiable
- Harding, G.L. Safaitic Inscriptions from Tapline in Jordan. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 17, 1972: 5-14 and 2 unnumbered plates.
- Site
- At Km. 959 of the ARAMCO Tapline, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Current Location
- Unknown
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0010591
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