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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

AMJ 054

Text Information

Siglum
AMJ 054
Alternative Sigla
Jobling 1985: 215, no. 1
Transliteration
w tḥbb ḫṭṭ
Translation
And Tḥbb is [the] drawer

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TRANSLATION ḫṭṭ, Jobling: "(he) drew (it)"; King: "[the] inscriber". DISCUSSION King (1990: 613–614) commented: "The text is not by a woman as suggested by Jobling (1985: 215) as the word ḫṭṭ does not have a feminine ending".

Original Reading Credit
King 1990
Original Translation Credit
King 1990

  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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 Sixth Season of the ʿAqaba-Maʿan Epigraphic and Archaeological Survey. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 29, 1985: 211-220.
Site
Wādī Ḥafīr, Al-‘Aqabah Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Name only
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0049950
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