Siglum: WH 2815  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l {ʿ}bd bn yġṯ ḏ- ʾl bs¹ʾ w ngy m- nfrt w ʾḫ -h s¹nt mrdt nbṭ ʿl- ʾl {r}m f h [l]t s¹lm

Translation
By {ʿbd} son of Ygṯ of the lineage of Bs¹ʾ and he and his brother escaped from a party of men going to fight the year the Nabataeans rebelled against the people of {Rome}, so O {Lt} [grant] security

Apparatus Criticus
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Commentary
Note that the second letter of the text looks as though it was originally carved as a m and then converted to a ʿ.

For nfrt compare Classical Arabic nafrah "a people hastening to war" (Lane 2825b under nafīr). We would suggest that WH's translation (used here) fits the context better than that suggested in Al-Jallad and Jaworska (in press) "and he and his brother were announced [commander] of a party of near kinsmen". The fight could well have been the Nabataean rebellion.

At the end it seems that the author intended to carve h lt but accidentally omitted the l. WH copied a ʾ rather than a h, this is because there is a small abrasion near the letter's stem. The detailed photograph shows this along with s¹lm.

Subjects
Genealogy Warfare Outside peoples Relatives Prayer Deity

Country: Jordan
Region: Al-Mafraq Governorate
Site: WH Cairn 22
Site number: 0
Latitude: 32.421733
Longitude: 38.070489
Present Location: In situ
Find date: 1958–1959
Field collector: F.V. Winnett & G.L. Harding
Notes: WH Cairn 22 and this inscription were rediscovered and photographed by the Badia Epigraphic Survey in 2018 and the co-ordinates given are exact.

References:
Al-Jallad, A. & Jaworska, K.A. Dictionary and Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. Volume I: Dictionary. Leiden: Brill, 2019

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.

[WH] Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.

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