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AAEK 241

Siglum
AAEK 241
Transliteration
l ʿḏ bn kʿm h- rḥb
Translation
ʿḏ son of Kʿm was in this plain

Interpretation

Commentary
In Arabic riḥāb is a "plain, smooth areas where water collects" (Groom 1983: 243).

Provenance
Wādī al-ʾAḥīmr/Jordan
Original Reading Credit
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Original Translation Credit
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Associated Signs
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  • Groom, N. A Dictionary of Arabic Topography and Placenames. A Transliterated Arabic-English Dictionary with an Arabic Glossary of Topographical Words and Placenames. London: Longman / Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1983.
  • Al-Manāsīr [Al-Manaser], A.Y.Kh. Ein Korpus neuer safaitischer Inschriften aus Jordanien. (Semitica et Semitohamitica Berolinensia, 10). Aachen: Shaker, 2008.
Site
Wādī al-Aḥīmr, Jordan
Date Found
2004
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0033478
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