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QSZB 2

Siglum
QSZB 2
Transliteration
l bnʿtm bn qymt w l- -h ṣrt
Translation
For Bnʿtm son of Qymt and the structure is his

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
QSZB 2: bn qym twlh ṣrt for qymt w l- -h ṣrt; "son of Qym (and he) deeply grieved and cried/afflict of grief" for "Qymt and the structure is his"
Commentary
On the defective word-boundary spelling w l- -h ṣrt for /*wa-loh-haṣ-ṣVrat/ see Al-Jallad 2015: 14.

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Associated Inscriptions

  • Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
  • Al-Qudrah, Ḥ.M., Ṣadaqah [Sadaqah], I.S. & Al-Zuʿbī [Alzoubi], M.A. Bnʿtm rock inscriptions. An analytic study of new discovered Safaitic inscriptions from Deir al-Kahf in the northeast of Jordan. Acta Antiqua Hungarica 54, 2014: 55-72.
Site
Dayr al-Kahf, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0032587
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