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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

TIJ 048

Text Information

Siglum
TIJ 048
Alternative Sigla
King 1990: 654
Transliteration
l zhy bn ʿmr
Translation
By Zhy son of ʿmr

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Harding & Littmann: zky rather than zhy. DISCUSSION King (1990: 654) commented: "The third letter is more like a h than a k and I would read zhy as the first name, see also TIJ 4".

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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
Ṭurayf Marar, Al-‘Aqabah Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0050999
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