The New Obodas Inscription
Sidebar to: Understanding the Nabateans


Line 1: May he who reads (?) be remembered in good (memory) before Obodas the god, and may there be remembered
Line 2: who(ever) …
Line 3: Garm’alahi son of Taym’alahi [set up] a statue before Obodas the god.
Line 4: And he acts neither for benefit nor for favour. And if death claim us, let me not
Line 5: be claimed. And if affliction seeks, let it not seek us.
Line 6: Garm’alahi wrote this with his own hand.
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