KJB 136
Text Information
- Siglum
- KJB 136
- Transliteration
- rbt s¹q[m] w s²q b dʿm w dʿt lt fḍg w gḥfl w dʿm ḫṭṭ
- Translation
- Dʿm feels much {sickness} and yearning, and may Lt call Fḍg and Gḥfl, and Dʿm, [the] drawer
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TRANSLATION ḫṭṭ, King: "[the] inscriber". DISCUSSION King (1990: 284) commented: "The text is written in a zig-zag, down the rock and then curling up and back down. The m has been omitted from s¹qm. For this type of love inscription, see Ch.4.E.1 and for the prayer, see Ch.4.C.2".
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
- Deity, Isolated Prayer, Religion, Yearning
- Script
- Hismaic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0048187
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