ARNANab 16

id: 614

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This text was discovered reused in a wall close to the ʿUmar Mosque. According to al-Muaikil and al-Theeb, it was still there in the early 1990s, when someone was able to examine it in situ. According to Romolo Loreto, Alessandro de Maigret saw the inscription in 2008 during a visit he made site but in 2009 it had disappeared.
The stone measures 64 cm long and is 14 cm high. The text is carved inside a frame with dovetails.
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dnh qbrʾ dy bnh šlytw br šltw br mny br šltw br mny br ----n br mny lnpšh w lbnwhy
. l---- yldh ʾḥrh ʿlm ʿd ʿlm byrḥ sywn šnt tltyn w ḥmš lḥrtt mlk nbṭw rḥm ʿmh
---- lʾ šlm ----
Word list - ARNANab 16
  • ----n – Man’s personal name 1
  • . – 1
  • ʾḥr – Subst. sg. suffixed 1
  • b- – Preposition 1
  • bn – Subst. pl. suffixed 1
  • bnh – Suffix conjugation pʿl (G-stem or D-stem) 1
  • dy – Determinative relative pronoun 1
  • dnh – Demonstrative pronoun masc. sg. 1
  • -h – Enclitic personal pronoun sg. 4
  • w – Conjunction 1
  • -why – Enclitic personal pronoun sg. 1
  • ḥmš – Number in letters 1
  • ḥrtt – Nabataean king’s name 1
  • yld – Subst. sg. suffixed 1
  • yrḥ – Subst. sg. construct 1
  • l- – Preposition 4
  • lʾ – Interjection 1
  • mlk – Subst. sg. construct 1
  • mny – Man’s personal name 3
  • nbṭw – Non gentilic group name 1
  • npš – Subst. sg. suffixed 1
  • sywn – Month name 1
  • ʿd – Preposition 1
  • ʿlm – Subst. sg. absolute 2
  • ʿm – Subst. sg. suffixed 1
  • qbrʾ – Subst. sg. emphatic 1
  • rḥm – Active participle sg. 1
  • šlytw – Man’s personal name 1
  • šlm – Subst. sg. absolute 1
  • šltw – Man’s personal name 2
  • šnt – Subst. sg. construct 1
  • tltyn – Number in letters 1
د ن ه ق ب ر ا د ي ب ن ه ش ل ي ت و ب ر ش ل ت و ب ر م ن ي ب ر ش ل ت و ب ر م ن ي ب ر ----ن ب ر م ن ي ل ن ف ش ه و ل ب ن و ه ي
. ل---- ي ل د ه ا ح ر ه ع ل م ع د ع ل م ب ي ر ح س ي و ن ش ن ت ت ل ت ي ن و ح م ش ل ح ر ت ت م ل ك ن ب ط و ر ح م ع م ه
---- ل ا ش ل م ----
This is the tomb which Šlytw son of Šltw son of Mny son of Šltw son of Mny son of ----n son of Mny built for himself and for his sons ---- his descendants after him for ever and ever. In the month of Sīwan, the year thirty-five of Ḥrttt, king of the Nabataeans, lover of his people ---- Ah, peace! ----
Two different readings of this text are available:
1. Those of ARNANab and HNTI, which are identical.
2. Those of MAKNJ and RAMAS, which are identical but different from the first.
In the absence of detailed photographs or direct examination of the stone, it is difficult to correct the reading. The best is therefore probably to keep the reading of the editio princeps until the stone is examined again. However, those words which were differently are considered here as uncertain and therefore put between { }.
MAKN and RAMAS readings are given below for sake of completeness:
1. dnh qbrʾ dy [b]nh šlymw br šlmw br mynw br šlmw br mnw .. {br} mwzy br tymw lnpšh w lbnwhy
2. l{w} [w] l[y]ldh ʾḥrh ʿlm ʿd ʿlm byrḥ sywn šnt tltyn w ḥmš lḥrtt mlk nbṭw rḥm ʿm-h
3. w šlymw br ---- br šlmw [ʿbd]lʾšlm d.l..ʾʾ
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6 editions or commentaries found

reference reading category translation category page photograph copy squeeze card status
ARNA
Winnett 1970, Ancient Records 		Editio Princeps Editio Princeps 144–145 p. 236 Checked
DiCoNab
Digital Corpus of the Nabataean and Developing Arabic Inscriptions 		Same as editio princeps Same as editio princeps Checked
HNTI
Healey 1993, Tomb Inscriptions 		Same as editio princeps Same as editio princeps 246 Checked
MAKNJ
al-Muaikil 1996, Al-ʾāṯār wa al-kitābāt al-nabaṭiyyah 		Other reading Other translation 160–174 p. 217 Checked
RAMAS
al-Rashid 2003, ʾāṯār 		Other reading Other translation 83 p. 83 Checked
ThMNN
al-Theeb 2010, Mudawwanat 		Other reading Other translation 930–934 p. 1397 p. 930 (same as in MAKNJ) Checked
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