KJC 42

Siglum: KJC 42
Transliteration: [l] {ʾ}fl ḏ- ʾl {g}y {w} ḏkrt lt ʾh{l} kll -h
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Translation: {By} {ʾfl} of the lineage of {Gy}; and may Lt remember [the] {family} all of it
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Language and Script: Hismaic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: King (1990: 305–306) commented: "The initial l is almost completely covered by recent chipping and almost all the other letters are damaged to some degree, although mostly they can be restored with certainty. It is possible that there is another letter after the word ʾhl and a further one after the h of kllh. The tribal name is probably associated with the Nabataean toponym gyʾ, which is attested at these sites in the compound name ʿbdlg (KJC 205, 647) and, fromWādī Ramm, in ʿbdg (TIJ 136) (see Ch.5.A.1.b and 5.D). It occurs again in KJC 647 which, interestingly, is written by ʿbdlg who is possibly ʾfl’s father (see KJC 205). For prayers of this type, see Ch.4.C.1. ʾhl, Ar. ʾahl, ‘family’ is not attested elsewhere in Hismaic although prayers asking the deity to remember often refer to other social groups. kll Ar. kull ‘all’ occurs here with the suffixed third person singular pronoun h, cf. its use in KJC 641, CTSS 3 and MNM b 6".

[AMJ] 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.

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