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TIJ 495

Text Information

Siglum
TIJ 495
Alternative Sigla
UR 2a; King 1990: 673
Transliteration
l s¹hm bn r{ṭ}----.
Translation
By S¹hm son of {Rṭ----}

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Harding & Littmann: -hm bn rṭʿ rather than l s¹hm bn r{ṭ}----. DISCUSSION King (1990: 673) commented: "The beginning of the text is clear but the ṭ is doubtful and there are traces of a further two letters at the end".

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.
  • Savignac, M.-R. Sur les pistes de Transjordanie méridionale. Revue biblique 45, 1936: 235-262, pls 7-13.
  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
Umm al-Raṣāṣ, Mādabā Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0051446
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