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KJA 76

Text Information

Siglum
KJA 76
Transliteration
w s¹yr {ḫ}ṭṭ bn s¹lm
Translation
And S¹yr is [the] {drawer} son of s¹lm

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TRANSLATION {ḫ}ṭṭ, King: "[the] inscriber". DISCUSSION King (1990: 196) commented: "Written downwards under the belly of an ibex which was drawn by the author. The bn and the patronymic are written to the right of the first name and the word ḫṭṭ. For this formula used with drawings, see Ch.4.B.2 and for other occurrences of s¹yr bn s¹lm, see Index a".

Original Reading Credit
King 1990: 196
Original Translation Credit
King 1990: 196

  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
Genealogy
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0047755
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