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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

TIJ 177

Text Information

Siglum
TIJ 177
Alternative Sigla
King 1990: 660
Transliteration
l mlḥ bn
Translation
By Mlḥ son of

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Harding & Littmann: mhḥ rather than mlḥ. DISCUSSION King (1990: 660) commented: "Littmann 1953: 17 and Harding 1971: 563: mlḥ. The inscription was not found by the survey but Littmann's and Harding's re-readings seem the most satisfactory interpretation".
Commentary
No photograph available.

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.
  • Harding, G.L. An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. (Near and Middle East Series, 8). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
Rock on the West side of Wādī Ramm, north of the Fort, Al-‘Aqabah Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0051128
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