“Figure of a boy standing to the right of a half-figure of which only the outline of man’s hairdo and a palm attaching the veil remain vertically over the right shoulder.
’]bgr m/qlbṭ’ […]
The reading [’]bgr (dotted resh) is fairly sure. The Syriac root lbṭ means “to incite”, so mlbṭ’, Melabbaṭa, could be a participle Pa‘el used as a name, but the first letter looks rather like a qoph. Date: 3rd century?”
Palmyra Museum Inv. 2580/8830
Aramaic Inscriptions in the Palmyra Museum
Khaled Al-Asʿad, Michal Gawlikowski and Jean-Baptiste Yon
