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KJC 555

Text Information

Siglum
KJC 555
Transliteration
h ḏs²ry l mʿz s¹ʿd ngy w ṯry
Translation
O Ḏs²ry [grant] to Mʿz good fortune of deliverance and sufficiency

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
King (1990: 420) commented: "The text is written down the rock and then turns in a loop up. For the form of the prayer, see Ch.4.C.3. The expression of s¹ʿd ngy is a construct. For other occurrences of the substantive s¹ʿd, see KJC 405 and 442b; ngy, cf. Ar. najāʾ ‘deliverance’; ṯry, cf. Ar. ṯarāʾ ‘sufficiency’, the word occurs again in KJC 729".

Original Reading Credit
King 1990: 420
Original Translation Credit
King 1990: 420

  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
Deity, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0049659
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