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KJC 762

Text Information

Siglum
KJC 762
Transliteration
w dʿ ds²ry mlgn
Translation
And may Ds²ry call Mlgn

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
King (1990: 463) commented: "See Ch.4.C.2 for this type of prayer, mlgn is not in Harding 1971. See KJC 760".
Commentary
Note the use of d instead of ḏ in the divine name ds²ry, a possible Aramaism". See Macdonald (in press, f).

Original Reading Credit
King 1990: 463
Original Translation Credit
King 1990: 463

  • Harding, G.L. An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. (Near and Middle East Series, 8). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971.
  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.
  • Macdonald, M.C.A. Clues as to how a Nabataean may have spoken from a Hismaic inscription. Pages 231–239 in G.R. Smith, Near Eastern and Arabian Essays: Studies in Honour of John Healey. (Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement, 41) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018
Site
Wādī Ǧudayyid site C, Al-‘Aqabah Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0049885
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