TIJ 503

Text Information

Siglum
TIJ 503
Transliteration
ytm bn ʿbny w wgm ʿl- ḫll -h
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Translation
Ytm son ʿbny and he grieved for his friend
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Littmann quoted commentary: possibly beginning {l} tm Voigt 1981: 183, n. 30: gbny for ʿbny.
Commentary
Door stopper on the roof of a hotel in Amman! Harding and Littmann (1952: 47) consider the inscription as Thamudic.

Editio Princeps
Ed. pr.

Technique
Unidentifiable
Direction of Script
Curving

  • [TIJ] Harding, G.L. & Littmann, E. Some Thamudic Inscriptions from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Leiden: Brill, 1952.
  • [AMJ] 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.
  • [VEA] Voigt, R.M. Einige altnordarabische Inschriften. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 97, 1981: 178-187, pl. 13-14.
Site
Al-Ruwayšid (formerly H4), Jordan
Current Location
Amman Museum J (14175)
Subjects
Genealogy, Grieving
Old OCIANA ID
#0003126
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OCIANA,. 'TIJ 503.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2400. Accessed: 29 Aug, 2025.