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AMJ 131

Text Information

Siglum
AMJ 131
Alternative Sigla
Jobling 1986: 265, no. 1; CH.R742.1
Transliteration
l ʿlyn bn qnt bn nʿmy bn rbqt bn ʿrk bn ʿbd
Translation
By ʿlyn son of Qnt son of Nʿmy son of Rbqt son of ʿrk son of ʿbd

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
Corbett (2010: 371) commented: "The final y of PN3 does not have the typical elongated tail".
Commentary
Photograph: Corbett 2010.

Provenance
Wādī aṭ-Ṭufayf
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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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. North Arabian (-Thamudic) Inscriptions and Rock Art from the ʿAqaba-Maʿan Area of Southern Jordan. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 30, 1986: 261-283, pl. 48-55.
  • Corbett, G.J Mapping the mute immortals: A locational and contextual analysis of Thamudic E/Ḥismaic inscriptions and rock drawing from the Wādī Ḥafīr of southern Jordan. PhD Thesis (University of Chicago). 2010.
Site
Wādī Ḥafīr, Al-‘Aqabah Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0050029
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