CSA 2.1

Siglum
CSA 2.1
Transliteration
l hmlk bn ʾlh bn s¹ny bn hmlk bn ḥrb w rʿy mdbr {f} ṣyr b- h- ngm f h lt s¹lm
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Translation
By Hmlk son of ʾlh son of S¹ny son of Hmlk son of Ḥrb and he pastured the inner desert and returned to permanent water during Virgo and O Lt [grant] security
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
CSA: f ṣyr for {f} ṣyr; translated from w rʿy as "and he pastured in the desert and went back to the encampment at Hngm; so Lt [grant] security"; see Arabic najm "star" appointed time" "grass"; we may translate "at the appointed time". JMAA XV p. 95-97: f ṣyr b h ngm "and he migrated [here] at Hngm"; comments on the drawing.
Commentary
After the last personal name the author originally wrote w ry and then erased the letters and rʿy; the first f seems to have been erased though possibly accidentally. For b-h-ngm as "during Virgo" see Al-Jallad 2016: 101.

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Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Curving/boustrophedon

Associated Signs
Cartouche of broken lines surrounding the text
Associated Inscriptions

  • Al-Jallad, A. An Ancient Arabian Zodiac. The Constellations in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Part II. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 27, 2016: 84–106.
  • [CSA] Clark, V.A. New Safaitic Inscriptions from Sakaka and Azraq. Abr-Nahrain 23, 1984-1985: 14-21, pls 1-2.
Site
Azraq airbase, Jordan
Current Location
Amman Museum
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0010522
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