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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

SMHBG 3

Siglum
SMHBG 3
Alternative Sigla
Ġarah 9
Transliteration
l s¹nn ṯʿd
Translation
By S¹nn is ripe date or By S¹nn (the) tender/very kind

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
Ṣadaqah et al. commented: "The interest of this graffito is in attesting an epithet element, ṯʿd, for the personal name Snn. Alternatively, though lacking the expected denite article “h", it could be a common noun referring to a “thing which Snn owned".

  • Ṣadaqah, I.S. & Al-Maʿānī [Maani, Al-Maʿani]i, S.A. New North Arabian "Ḥismaic" Thamudic inscriptions from Badiyah al-Ġarah in Maʿan, southern Jordan. 2. Semitica et Classica 7, 2014: 217-232.
  • Al-Maʿānī [Maani, Al-Maʿani], S.ʿA. Kitābāt ʿarabiyyah qadīmah min bādiyah maʿān. 2011.
Site
Wādī Ġarah al-Ǧafr area, Maʿān Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Name only
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0051563
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