KJC 139

Siglum
KJC 139
Transliteration
s¹lḥ zdn f ʾs¹dḥ f ġny b ks¹yh
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Translation
Zdn armed [himself] and he killed and layed [a beast] on the ground and so he became free from want by pursuing it
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Language and Script
Hismaic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
King (1990: 331–332) commented: "s¹lḥ, cf. Ar. sallaḥahu, ‘he armed him with weapons’. No object is expressed here and ‘himself’ must be supplied. f cf. the Ar. particle fa ‘and so’. ʾs¹dḥ is Form IV of the root s¹dḥ which in Form I in Arabic means ‘to kill and lay (a beast) on the ground’; ġny b, cf. Ar. ġaniya bihi, ‘he became free from want by means of it’. In Arabic the verb kasaʾa means ‘he pursued or followed’, here, ks¹yh would be the verbal noun, Ar. kasʾ, and -h the third person pronoun in the genitive, is used to express the object".

Editio Princeps
King 1990: 331–332

  • [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 [Unpublished]. 1990.
Site
Wādī Ǧudayyid site C, Al-‘Aqabah Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Hunting
Old OCIANA ID
#0049216
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