KJC 641

Siglum: KJC 641
Transliteration: l ʿly bn ʾṣfr mn ʾl mzn w ḏkrt lt ʾs²[y]ʿ -n kll -hm
Translation: By ʿly son of ʾṣfr from the lineage of Mzn; and may Lt remember our {companions}, all of them

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: King (1990: 435–436) commented: "The inscription starts on the right and then curls round inside itself. The y of ʾs²yʿ has been left out and the m of -hm at the end is some distance from the previous letter. The tribal affiliation is introduced by mn ‘from’ a form which is not previously attested in the dialect but occurs in Nabataean, see Ch.4.A.1. The tribal name mzn occurs in AMJ 138 and mznytʾ (fem) occurs in a Nabataean text from Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ in Saudi Arabia (Cantineau 1930: 113), see Ch.5.D. For this type of prayer, see Ch.4.C.1".

Cantineau, J. Le Nabatéen. (2 volumes). Paris: Leroux, 1930-1932.
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 [Unpublished]. 1990.