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ZeGA 1

Siglum
ZeGA 1
Transliteration
l gfft bn kn ḏ- ʾl ʾty w l- -h mnṣb f h ʾlh s¹lm
Translation
By Gfft son of Kn of the lineage of ʾty and the standing stone was erected by him and so O ʾlh [grant] security

Interpretation

Commentary
w l- -h msnṣb is a case of word-boundary assimilation for *wa-luh-ham-manṣab, similar to the more common w l-h rgm. See Al-Jallad 2015: 14.

Provenance
Jabal al-ʿArab
Original Reading Credit
Ed. pr.
Original Translation Credit
Ed. pr

Technique
Chiselled

  • Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
  • Zeinaddin, H. Safaitische Inschriften aus dem Ǧabal al-ʿArab. Damaszener Mitteilungen 12, 2000: 265-289, pls 58-69.
Site
1.5-2 km west of the village of Ḥūṭ, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria
Date Found
1997
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Lineage, Religion
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0018597
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