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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KJC 48

Text Information

Siglum
KJC 48
Transliteration
w grf ḫṭṭ bkrt w frs¹
Translation
And Grf, [the] drawing of a young she-camel and a horse

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
King (1990: 310) commented: "The inscription is written round the young female camel mentioned in the text. See Ch.4.B.2, for this formula and KJA 113. Someone called grf has also signed the drawing of an ibex on the lower part of this rock and that of a young male camel on Rock XXXVII (Cdr 32)".

Original Reading Credit
King 1990: 310
Original Translation Credit
King 1990: 310

  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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 C, Al-‘Aqabah Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Drawing, Drawing of a domestic animal
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0049115
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