Bādiyah Palm. 1

Text Information

Siglum
Bādiyah Palm. 1
Alternative Sigla
Palmyrene 6
Transliteration
b- yrḥ šbṭ šnt
4 x100 + 3 x 20 + 10
glʾ dnh dy
mḥqrʾ l- ʿṭ kwn
w l- ʿmd l- k[ʾ]mn -h
b- / l- mrnʾ ḥd dy ḥsyd
w ḥṭ mlk w zbydʾ
w ḥnbl w tymrṣw
w ʿbdbl
OCIANA
Translation
By / son of L- In the month of šǝbāṭ of year
470.
This stone, which
defies [or scrutinises] time, is firmly established
like a column, as a sign of complete faith
in our Lord, One, who is charitable;
and have engraved [it] Malkāʾ with Zabīdāʾ
and Ḥanbōl and Taymarṣū
and ʿAbdibōl
OCIANA
Language and Script
Aramaic (Palmyrene)/Palmyrene

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
Kubiak-Schneider & Al-Manaser (2024: 264) translate the first part of the text as "‘This heap of stones which stood for observing the right moment and for the arrangement, for all his people, for one and only our lord, which excavated and carved…’."
Commentary
The reading and translation [originally in French] are by M. Gorea (2023: 243) and see her commentary there. The date is in the Seleucid ere and is equivalent to AD 159. She notes that the script is cursive Palmyrene though the forms of certain letters (e.g. ʾalef, ḥeth, yod and ṣādē) are different.

Editio Princeps
M. Gorea 2023

  • Gorea, M. Deux nouveaux graffites palmyréniens découverts dans la Bādiyah (Jordanie). Pages 239–254 in I. Gajda & F. Briquel Chatonnet (eds), Arabie — Arabies. Volume offert à Christian Julien Robin par ses collègues, ses élèves et ses amis. Paris: Geuthner, 2023.
  • Kubiak-Schneider, A. & Al-Manaser, A. Documenting the ḥarra’s epigraphic heritage: new Palmyrene inscriptions from the Jordanian ḥarra. Levant 56.2, 2024: 259-268
Site
Ābār al-Ġuṣayn, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
2015
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Date (s¹nt), Religion, Time
Old OCIANA ID
#0057806
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Updated 08 Jan, 2025 by Ahmad Al-Jallad

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Al-Jallad, Ahmad. 'Bādiyah Palm. 1.' OCIANA. 08 Jan, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/752. Accessed: 08 Jul, 2025.