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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KJB 57

Text Information

Siglum
KJB 57
Transliteration
l gḥf bn bhʾ bn ʾs¹lm
Translation
By Gḥf son of Bhʾ son of ʾs¹lm

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
King (1990: 266) commented: "Starting below KJB 56 and then curving to the left and then to the right. gḥf is not in Harding 1971, for other occurrences of the name at these sites, see Index a and see Ch.5.C, genealogy 1".

Original Reading Credit
King 1990: 266
Original Translation Credit
King 1990: 266

  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
#0048100
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