HaNSB 119

Siglum: HaNSB 119
Alternative Sigla: HaNS 119
Transliteration: l ḏʾl bn ʿzn w ʿgz h- s¹my
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Translation: By Ḏʾl son of ʿzn and the sky withheld [it i.e. the rain]
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Language and Script: Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: HaNS 119: "and the rain did not come down" (wa lam yanzil al-maṭar).
Commentary: The masculine concord between the verb and the subject h- s¹my in this inscription vs. feminine concord in HaNSB 62 (ʿgzt h- s¹my) invites comparison with the double gender (masc/fem) of the Classical Arabic cognate samāʾ-. Alternatively, Saf s¹my could represent a singular and a plural form which were distinguished only by their vocalizations. It is worth comparing this expression with s¹nt ḥgz -h bʿls¹mn in C 1240, 3261 (= Mu 93), LP 722, H 506, which seems to mean "the year Bʿls¹mn withheld it [i.e. the rain]".

[HaNS] Ḥarāḥšah [Harahsheh], R.M.A. Nuqūš ṣafāʾīyah ǧadīdah min al-bādīyah al-urdunīyah al-šimālīyyah al-šarqīyah — dirāsah muqāranah wa-taḥlīl. Unpublished doctoral thesis submitted at the University of Baghdad, August 2001. 2001.
[HaNSB] Ḥarāḥšah [Harahsheh], R.M.A. Nuqūš ṣafāʾiyyah min al-bādīyah al-urdunīyah al-šimālīyyah al-šarqīyah — dirāsah wa-taḥlīl. Amman: Ward, 2010.
[LP] Littmann, E. Safaïtic Inscriptions. Syria. Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904–1905 and 1909. Division IV. Section C. Leiden: Brill, 1943.
[C] Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.

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