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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KJB 17

Text Information

Siglum
KJB 17
Transliteration
l ʾʿbdt bn s¹yr
Translation
By ʾʿbdt son of S¹yr

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
King (1990: 257) commented: "On the right side, written down the rock and turning to the left. ʾʿbdt is not in Harding 1971. For other occurrences of the name, see Index a. ʾʿbdt bn s¹yr occurs again in KJB 90".

Original Reading Credit
King 1990: 257
Original Translation Credit
King 1990: 257

  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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 B, Al-‘Aqabah Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0048060
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