KJC 659

Siglum: KJC 659
Transliteration: ny{k} ʾmh mn s²h rʾ s¹fr
Translation: ʾmh {had sex repeatedly} with Mn yearning the sight of beauty ??

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: King (1990: 439) commented: "The text begins below KJC 657 and curves down the rock. The last three letters turn sharply upwards. The reading of the k is doubtful as the tail is indistinct. s²h cf. Ar. šāhin ‘desiring’; rʾ cf. Ar. raʾy ‘sight’, the word occurs in an unpublished ‘love’ prayer HS 950. The word sāfir in Ar. is used of a woman having her face uncovered which would be inappropriate here, Syr. šūfrā on the other hand means ‘beauty’. For other texts using nyk, see Ch.4.E.2".

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 [Unpublished]. 1990.