HaNSB 170

Siglum
HaNSB 170
Alternative Sigla
HaNS 170
Transliteration
l ġnm bn mṣrm bn mlk w wgd ʾṯr ṣʿr f ngʿ w ẓll mẓl s¹ʾ f h bʿls¹mn w h lt ġyrt l- m s¹ʾr
OCIANA
Translation
By Ġnm son of Mṣrm son of Mlk and he found the inscription of Ṣʿb and so he suffered and he remained in (a state) of perpetual sorrow and O Bʾls¹mn and O Lt [grant] blood-money [vengeance] to those who remain
OCIANA
Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
HaNS 170: translation of w ẓll m ẓl s¹ʾ "and he built a shelter over one who remained sick" (wa banā ẓallah ʿalā man baqiya marīḍan)
Commentary
In Classical Arabic the root sʾr means “to remain” in the sense of “to be left over” (as of food after a meal, or change after a purchase). However, the active participle, sāʾir “the rest, the remainder” is also used of people (Lane 1282 c). In contexts where s¹ʾr refers to the inscription (usually in opposition to ʿwr) it means “to leave untouched” but in contexts where it refers to people it means “remain”. LP 305’s “remain safe” is stretching the meaning slightly, but the reference is in contrast to ḍlln “those who are lost, i.e. dead”. The root ẓll should be connected to Arabic "to stay, remain". We take mẓl as an adverb "perpetually" (as in WH 180), and connect s¹ʾ to Arabic s¹āʾ "to be bad, sad".

Editio Princeps
Ed. pr.

Technique
Copy only
Direction of Script
Curving boustrophedon

Associated Inscriptions

  • [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 Unpublished doctoral thesis submitted at the University of Baghdad, August 2001. 2001.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.
  • [Lane] Lane, E.W. An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived from the Best and Most Copious Eastern Sources. (Volume 1 in 8 parts [all published]). London: Williams & Norgate, 1863-1893.
  • [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.
  • [WH] Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.
Site
Cairn 5, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0019439
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