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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
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Original Translation Credit
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  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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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