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TIJ 503

Text Information

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

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.

Original Reading Credit
Ed. pr.
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Unidentifiable

  • Voigt, R.M. Einige altnordarabische Inschriften. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 97, 1981: 178-187, pl. 13-14.
  • Harding, G.L. & Littmann, E. Some Thamudic Inscriptions from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Leiden: Brill, 1952.
  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
Al-Ruwayšid (formerly H4), Jordan
Current Location
Amman Museum J (14175)
Subjects
Genealogy, Grieving
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0003126
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