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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

NST 7

Text Information

Siglum
NST 7
Transliteration
l tm bn nʾrʾl ḏ- ʾl ḍf w ḫyṭ mdbr f h lt mgdt w s¹lm
Translation
By Tm son of Nʾrʾl of the lineage of Ḍf and he went straight to [the] desert. So O Lt [grant] glory and security

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
NST: mgdt w s¹lm "[give] glory and peace". Littmann quoted in commentary: w ḫyṭ mdbr "and he passed quickly along [from] the desert". JSafN 34: mgdt "happiness". H unp. p. 197: mgdt "abundance".

Provenance
H5/Safawi
Original Reading Credit
Ed. pr.
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

  • Harding, G.L. New Safaitic Texts. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 1, 1951: 25-29, pl. 8.
Site
About 12 km west of Al-Safāwī (formerly H5), Jordan
Current Location
Amman Museum J (1815)
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0003070
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