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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

NST 1

Text Information

Siglum
NST 1
Alternative Sigla
King 1990: 643
Transliteration
l z---- w wgm ʿl- {ʾ}{ṣ}ḥ w ʿl- mr w ʿl- s¹my w ʿl- mlky w ʿl- tm w ʿl- ʾs¹ w ʿl- ḫld w ʿl- ḫmmt w ʿl- wʾln w ʿl- ʾs¹dt w ʿl- ḥmlt w ʿl- ḥb w ʿl- ḥs¹mt w ʿl- whdt w ʿl- tm
Translation
By Z---- and he was sad for {ʾṣḥ} and for Mr and for S¹my and for Mlky and for Tm and for ʾs¹ and for Ḫld and for Ḫmmt and for Wʾln and for ʾs¹dt and for Ḥmlt and for Ḥb and for Ḥs¹mt and for Whdt and for Tm

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
NST: wṭm for wgm; TRANSLATION wgm, King: "(he) grieved".
Commentary
There is an apotropaic sign of seven lines in the middle of the inscription.

Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
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Technique
Unidentifiable

  • Harding, G.L. New Safaitic Texts. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 1, 1951: 25-29, pl. 8.
  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
Saḥāb, ʿAmmān Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
Amman Museum J (1642)
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0003064
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