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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KJC 470

Siglum
KJC 470
Transliteration
l mḥllt frs¹
Translation
By Mḥllt is [the] horse

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
King (1990: 404) commented: "The text is written down from between the legs of the horse to which it refers. The initial l is just legible under a penis that has been added to the drawing of the horse. For this formula, see Ch.4.B.1 and see KJA 113".

Original Reading Credit
King 1990: 404
Original Translation Credit
King 1990: 404

  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
Drawing of a domestic animal
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0049570
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