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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KJC 144

Text Information

Siglum
KJC 144
Transliteration
w zdlh ḫṭṭ klbt
Translation
And Zdlh, [the] drawing of a bitch

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
King (1990: 332) commented: "Written from right to left under the drawing of the dog. cf. Ar. kalbah ‘bitch’, the substantive klb occurs in KJC 74. See Ch.4.B.2".

Original Reading Credit
King 1990: 332
Original Translation Credit
King 1990: 332

  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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 wild animal, Wild animals
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0049221
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