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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KJA 6

Siglum
KJA 6
Transliteration
nk rhs¹ ʿzz w nyk
Translation
Rhs¹ had sex with ʿzz (or a loved one) and made love repeatedly

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
King (1990: 177) commented: "For texts using nk and nyk, see Ch. 4.E.2., ʿzz might be a proper name or a substantive cf. Ar. ʿaziz ‘dear, beloved’".

Original Reading Credit
King 1990: 177
Original Translation Credit
King 1990: 177

  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
Wādī Ǧudayyid site A, Al-‘Aqabah Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Sexual references
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0047679
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