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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KJA 168

Siglum
KJA 168
Transliteration
l ʿbdʾyb bn s¹ʿd
Translation
By ʿbdʾyb son of S¹ʿd

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
King (1990: 216) commented: "The inscription is written round the bottom of an ibex which was drawn by ʿbdʾyb. The name is not in Harding 1971. It occurs again in KJC 631a".

Original Reading Credit
King 1990: 216
Original Translation Credit
King 1990: 216

  • Harding, G.L. An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. (Near and Middle East Series, 8). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971.
  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
#0047852
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