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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KJC 441

Siglum
KJC 441
Transliteration
w ḏʾb ḫṭṭ
Translation
And Ḏʾb is [the] drawer

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TRANSLATION ḫṭṭ, King: "[the] inscriber". DISCUSSION King (1990: 397) commented: "The drawing to which ḏʾb refers is of a dog chasing an ostrich. The inscription is written curving round the chest and neck of the ostrich. For this formula referring to drawings, see Ch.4.B.2".

Original Reading Credit
King 1990: 397
Original Translation Credit
King 1990

  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
Name only
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0049537
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