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AMJ 132

Text Information

Siglum
AMJ 132
Alternative Sigla
Jobling 1986: 265, no. 2; CH.R742.2
Transliteration
l s¹mdt bn zdlh bn hnʾlh
Translation
By S¹mdt son of Zdlh son of Hnʾlh

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
Corbett (2010: 371) commented: "This inscription was carved by s¹mdt of the s²hr lineage. There is an area of rough hammering beneath the text".
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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
#0050030
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