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AMJ 055

Text Information

Siglum
AMJ 055
Alternative Sigla
Jobling 1985: 215, no. 2
Transliteration
w ġlmt ḫṭṭ h- wʿl kll
Translation
And Ġlmt is [the] drawer of this ibex all [of it]

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Jobling: s¹lmt rather than ġlmt. TRANSLATION ḫṭṭ, Jobling: "(he) drew (it)"; King: "[the] inscriber". DISCUSSION King (1990: 614) commented: "The second letter which has a distinct curving tail is a ġ and not a s¹".

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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
#0049951
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