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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KJB 116

Siglum
KJB 116
Transliteration
l mġny bn hwn h- bkrt
Translation
By Mġny son of Hwn is the young she-camel

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
King (1990: 280) commented: "Written down and then turning to the right. There is a camel above, to which the inscription refers. hwn is not in Harding 1971. mġny bn hn occurs in KJB 70".

Original Reading Credit
King 1990: 280
Original Translation Credit
King 1990: 280

  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
Subjects
Drawing of a domestic animal, Genealogy
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0048166
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