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AMJ 134

Text Information

Siglum
AMJ 134
Alternative Sigla
Jobling 1986: 265, no. 1; CH.R645.7
Transliteration
l wtr bn fṣt bn z{d}
Translation
By Wtr son of Fṣt son of {Zd}

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Jobling followed by King: wtr bn fht bn z---- rather than wtr bn fṣt bn z{d}. DISCUSSION Corbett (2010: 342) commented: "wtr’s father fṣt signed his name to this stone as well (text #6). To the left of the text is a drawing of a camel".
Commentary
Photograph: Corbett 2010.

Provenance
Wādī aṭ-Ṭufayf
Original Reading Credit
Corbett 2010
Original Translation Credit
Corbett 2010

  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
#0051611
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