CH.R454.4

Siglum: CH.R454.4
Transliteration: lʿnt lt mn ḫbl ṯr w ġnṯ ḫṭṭ
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Translation: May Lt curse the one who defaces [the] oryx and Ġnṯ is [the] drawer
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Language and Script: Hismaic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TRANSLATION ḫṭṭ, Corbett: "(he) carved". To take ḫṭṭ as a verb here is too vague in a context where the inscription is in effect a signature to the drawing. DISCUSSION Corbett (2010: 334) commented: "This inscription occurs above the main oryx hunt drawing (a1) on an adjacent face of the boulder. It is situated outside the cartouche that encloses the scene, although the text refers directly to the oryx in the drawing. To the left of the inscription on the same face is a drawing of a hunter with bow (a2). This type of curse is unique within the Wādī Ḥafīr corpus, although similar curses are attested in Safaitic. I have taken the author to be ġnṯ [son of ʿm] of the s²hr lineage. The same author appears to have carved the inscription and drawing on nearby R455".

[CH.] 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.

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