SIJ 1008
Text Information
- Siglum
- SIJ 1008
- Transliteration
- l <<>>bʾmrh ggdʿ w nw(y) w ʾqwy w dṯʾ w qy[ẓ] w s¹ty h- rḥbt ʿwd w h ʾ(l)(t) s¹fʾhm
- Translation
- By Bʾmrh and, [Gdʿwḏ], let there be pasture and endurance while he spends the season of the later rains, the dry season, and the winter at this Raḥabah once again; and, O ʾlt, let them (i.e. the seasons) provide sustenance.
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- SIJ 1008: l ʿbʾmr h g<<>>dʿw[ḏ] w h ʾ(l)(t) hẓʾhm nwʾ qwy w dṯʾ w qy w s²ty h- bt ʿwd. MST 7: suggests the author was able to spend the whole year in one place. MNH p. 322 and n. 127: on w dṯʾ w qy[ẓ] w s¹ty.
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Winnett, F.V. Safaitic Inscriptions from Jordan. (Near and Middle East Series, 2). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1957.
- Al-Jallad, A.M. An ancient Arabian zodiac. The constellations in the Safaitic inscriptions, Part I. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 25, 2014: 214-230.
- Site
- Cairn south of the Baghdad road near al-Ruwayšid (formerly H4), Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Current Location
- In situ
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0017747
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