OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

TIJ 209

Text Information

Siglum
TIJ 209
Alternative Sigla
King 1990: 662
Transliteration
l ʾs¹wr
Translation
By ʾs¹wr

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Harding & Littmann: ʾs¹wl rather than ʾs¹wr. DISCUSSION King (1990: 662) commented: "The last letter is much shorter than the first and seems to curve, although part is hidden by a recent chip".
Commentary
No photograph available.

Provenance
It occurs on a large slanting rock face and its position in relation to each other have not been represented in the published facsimile (King 1999: 661).
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.
  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
Name only
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0051160
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