AMJ 023

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Jobling: ḥdḍ rather than ḥdṯ[]. DISCUSSION King (1990: 611) commented: "There is a dot after the ṯ but it does not appear to be as definite as the rest of the letters. I think it is quite likely that this is a continuation of AMJ 20, judging by the technique of inscribing, although such a reading would only make sense on the assumption that AMJ 21 and 24 were inscribed first leaving ʾkbr little space to write his patronymic directly after his name".

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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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.