AMJ 012

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Jobling: f {l} rʿ{l}t rather than fbr. DISCUSSION King (1990: 610) commented: "The text reads down towards the end of AMJ 11. Possibly Jobling (1983: 205) is correct in suggesting that the first letter should be interpreted as ‘and’ in which case the text would read f br ‘And br’. This would be the first instance of a name being introduced by f, although the particle introduces a verb in KJC 140 and there are several instances where w occurs at the beginning of a text before a name, see Ch.4.A.3".

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 [Unpublished]. 1990.
Jobling, W.J. Preliminary Report of the Fourth Season of the ʿAqaba-Maʿan Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey 1982-1983. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 27, 1983: 197-208.