Siglum: NST 4  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l zbd bn s¹ḫr bn dʾf bn s¹ḫr w rdf h- ḍʾn f h gdʿwḏ s¹lm w mgdt

Translation
By Zbd son of S¹ḫr son of Dʾf son of Ḫr and he followed the sheep. So O Gd ʿwḏ [grant] security and glory

Apparatus Criticus
JSafN 34: mgdt "happiness". H unp. p. 197: mgdt "abundance". GK: as NST.

Commentary
There is an apotropaic sign of seven lines on the same stone (the ends of the lines are linked together by two other lines running perpendicular to them).

Subjects
Genealogy

Site: Qaʿ el ʿAbid
Map reference: 360.218
Present Location: Amman Museum J (1817)
Associated Inscriptions: NST 5-6
Associated Remains: Cairn

References:
[NST] Harding, G.L. New Safaitic Texts. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 1, 1951: 25-29, pl. 8.

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