KJC 84

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: King (1990: 318–319) commented: "I am uncertain how to translate this text. The script is Hismaic although some of the letters are written with unusual stances. Except for the ʾ, the first five letters, written horizontally, have a vertical stance and the ḥ and h in the rest of the inscription have a horizontal stance although the text is written vertically. The h has a shorter line for one of its forks and the z is written with comparatively long arms and a short crossbar. Similar h’s occur in KJC 46 the letters of which are also written with stances that do not follow the direction of the text, see Ch.2.H.3".

[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 [Unpublished]. 1990.

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