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AMJ 145

Text Information

Siglum
AMJ 145
Alternative Sigla
Jobling 1984-1986: 29
Transliteration
zrʿ ḏs²r ḥty ʿbd ḫṭṭ
Translation
May Ḏs²r make Ḥty sound and strong, ʿbd is [the] drawer

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TRANSLATION Jobling: "Fructify, O Dushares, ḤTY. ʿBD inscribed (this prayer)"; ḫṭṭ, King: "[the] inscriber". DISCUSSION King (1990: 622) commented: "Jobling 1984–1986. I have not seen this publication and the reading are based on the facsimiles reproduced in Jamme 1988: 164". "There is no w before the name ʿbd. See Ch.4.C.5 for this type of prayer".

Original Reading Credit
King 1990
Original Translation Credit
King 1990

  • Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XVI. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1988.
  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.
  • Jobling, W.J. Desert Deities: Some New Epigraphic Evidence for the Deities Dushares and al-Lat from the Aqaba-Maʿan Area of Southern Jordan. Religious Traditions 7-9, 1984-1986: 25-40.
Site
Uncertain, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0051622
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