KJC 13

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: King (1990: 298–299) commented: "The first name is written diagonally above the rest of the text which reads from left to right and then loops round to the left. The letters from the first bn onwards have been joined up and some of the apertures of the letters are closed. The arms of the first b, the ḥ, r and second b are all joined by a line and there is a further line from the tail of the ḥ attaching it to the preceding b. There is a line joining the m to the following b. The n of the second bn is indistinguishable from the line joining the arms of the b which covers it. The third name is difficult to interpret. The first letter I have read as an ʿ although it could equally be a r (or b) with the arms joined by a line. The second letter might be a h with the fork joined or a y. The short tail suggests the latter is more probable. The b of the third bn is attached by two ligatures extending to the upper and lower crossbars of the z of the following name. The d is only joined to the ʾ by a small hammer mark. Both forks of the ʾ are joined up and a line links it to the top of the final l".

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 [Unpublished]. 1990.