KhNSJ 5
Text Information
- Siglum
- KhNSJ 5
- Transliteration
- l grm bn lṯ bn ṣrmt ḏ- ʾl ʿmrt w ṣyr qyẓ rʿy
- Translation
- By Grm son of Lṯ son of Ṣrmt of the lineage of ʿmrt and he came to a place of permanent water while pasturing in the dry season
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- KhNSJ: ʿy for rʿy
- Commentary
- As in KhNSJ 2 a number of letters have been placed within each other again regardles of word-division (e.g. bnlṯ bnṣ). However at the end of the inscription the author has applied the same technique to whole words. The first letter after the w is both a q and a ṣ hence the circle is between the middle of the stem and its top and there is a short cross stroke the bottom of the shaft. Similarly the third letter after the w is both the final r ṣyr and the initial r of rʿy but is also the ẓ of qyẓ. Thus it has the short backward strokes of the ẓ and the incurving hooks of the r.
- Provenance
- Wādī Miqat
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Special Features
- Lett enbox/word enbox
- Special Letter Forms
- q/ṣ and ẓ/r combinations (see commentary)
- Technique
- Incised
- Associated Remains
- Cairn
- Al-Khraysheh, F.H. New Safaitic Inscriptions from Jordan. Syria 72, 1995: 401-414.
- Site
- Between Wādī Miqāṭ and Wādī al-Ġuṣayn c. 1 km north of the Baghdad road and c. 6 km west of the Miqāṭ police station, Jordan
- Current Location
- Mus. Jordan Heritage Yarmouk
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0014914
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