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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

TIJ 045

Text Information

Siglum
TIJ 045
Alternative Sigla
Jamme 1971: 9–10; King 1990: 654
Transliteration
l qs²ṭ---- w ḏkrt lt mrʾ w mnʿt w s¹----
Translation
By Qs²ṭ----, and may Lt remember Mrʾ and Mnʿt and S¹----

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Read as Safaitic in JMAA II p. 9-10 (= JaS 183). Harding & Littmann: l ʿs²wr w ḏkrt lt mrr w mʿ w rather than l qs²ṭ---- w ḏkrt lt mrʾ w mnʿt w s¹----. DISCUSSION- King (1990: 654) commented: "The first name is read ʿs²wr by TIJ. The letters qs²ṭ are clear on the photograph. They are followed by a proportionately large circle which I do not know how to interpret. The rest of the text is certain except for the continuation after the s¹ where the rock is damaged".

Original Reading Credit
King 1990
Original Translation Credit
King 1990

  • Harding, G.L. & Littmann, E. Some Thamudic Inscriptions from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Leiden: Brill, 1952.
  • Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe II. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1971.
  • King, G.M.H. Early North Arabian Thamudic E. A preliminary description based on a new corpus of inscriptions from the Ḥismā desert of southern Jordan and published material. Ph.D thesis, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1990. [Unpublished]. 1990.
Site
Ḫāz ʿAlī, Al-‘Aqabah Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0050994
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