SIT 12

Siglum: SIT 12
Transliteration: l mġyr bn zyd bn ʾrs² w bny ʿl- bn -h w ʿlf
Translation: By Mġyr son of Zyd son of ʾrs² and he built for his son and fed [the animals] on dry fodder

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: SIT: ʾl{f} for ʾrs². SIAM II p. 194: read ʾrs² for the third name and it is uncertain whether the last four letters belong to the text. JMAA VIII p. 3: ʾlġ for ʾl{f}. JMAA XIII p. 196-197: ʾrs² for ʾl{f}; he reads the last four letters as a separate text in the opposite direction to that in which they were read by SIT: fkʿw a proper name "Fkʿw".
Commentary: The s² has a vertical stroke with an arm at right angles at one end and a curve at the other. The last four letters have thicker carelessly hammered lines. Whilst SIAM II and JMAA XIII might be correct in suggesting that they form a separate text it is perhaps more likely that they do belong to this text and have been subsequently hammered over. JMAA XIII's suggestion is highly improbable.

Associated Signs

Criss-crossing scratched lines

Associated Inscriptions

Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe VII. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1974.
Macdonald, M.C.A. Safaitic Inscriptions in the Amman Museum and Other Collections II. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 24, 1980: 185-208, pls 111-133.
Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XIII. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1983.
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: Between Km. 967 and 961 of the ARAMCO Tapline, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan