Siglum: CSNS 661  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l drb bn qn h- nbṭy

Translation
By Drb son of Qn the Nabataean

Apparatus Criticus
CSNS: h- nbṭ{y} for h- nbṭy.

Commentary
See RMenv.C 1 and 2, and BSWSA 562 for other Safaitic inscriptions by people claiming to be "Nabataeans", and see the discussions in Macdonald 2009 II, 307, n. 28; 350, n. 302; 2009 IV, 185, n. 23, 186.

Subjects
Genealogy

Country: Jordan
Site: H (Qāʿ al-ʿArqadiya)
Site number: 0
Map reference: 3654 III 163598
Present Location: In situ
Field collector: Vincent Clark
Notes: South of H4 between H4 and Tapline (al-
Associated Signs: The text is enclosed in a cartouch
Associated Remains: Cairn

References:
[CSNS] Clark, V.A. A Study of New Safaitic Inscriptions from Jordan. Thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Melbourne. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1979 [1983].

Macdonald, M.C.A. Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia. (Variorum Collected Studies, 906). Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.

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