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AMJ 046

Text Information

Siglum
AMJ 046
Alternative Sigla
Jobling 1984: 198–199, no. 2
Transliteration
l ḥbb bn bnlh bn ḥbb w ḏkr ds²r s²kmlh w ḥbb ḫṭṭ
Translation
By ḥbb son of bnlh son of ḥbb; and may ds²r remember s²kmlh, and ḥbb is [the] drawer

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TRANSLATION ḫṭṭ, Jobling: "(he) inscribed (it); King: "[the] inscriber". DISCUSSION King (1990: 613) commented: "= AMJ 147. See. Ch.4.C.1, for this type of prayer".

Original Reading Credit
King 1990
Original Translation Credit
King 1990

  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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. The Fifth Season of the ʿAqaba-Maʿan Survey 1984. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 28, 1984: 191-202.
Site
Wādī al-Ḍayqah, south of Wādī Ramm, Al-‘Aqabah Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0049942
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