KJA 105

Siglum: KJA 105
Transliteration: wdd qn ġlmt [w] lʿn ḏs²{r}y lʿn qn
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Translation: Qn loved a young woman, {and} may {Ḏs²ry} curse the curser of Qn
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Language and Script: Hismaic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: King (1990: 203–204) commented: "The text is written down the rock. The second part, a curse, is written on the right of KJA 106. The arms of the ġ are short and the w introducing the curse has been obscured by a chip. The following l is much thicker than the other letters of the text. The s² is a squiggly line similar to the shape of the letter in Safaitic. The letter after the ḏ is a circle but it is carelessly hammered and it is possible that the marks enclosing the curve are misdirected hammering. I have restored it as r. For other love texts using wdd, see Ch.4.E.2. For lʿn, cf. Ar. laʿana ‘curse s.o.’. The verb here is a perfect used for the optative. The object is a noun lʿn, cf. Ar. laʿʿan ‘curser’, in construct with the following proper name. This is the only instance of a curse among these texts, see Ch.4.D".

[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 [Unpublished]. 1990.

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