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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KJA 188

Siglum
KJA 188
Transliteration
rb s¹rr b mbʿl
Translation
Mbʿl feels much happiness

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
King (1990: 220) commented: "The text is written down and then turns up to the left, finishing below the end of the first name of KJA 187. For this type of love text, see Ch.4.E.1. The name mbʿl is not in Harding 1971, see Index a for other occurrences".

Original Reading Credit
King 1990: 220
Original Translation Credit
King 1990: 220

  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
Name only
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0047873
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