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AMJ 149

Text Information

Siglum
AMJ 149
Alternative Sigla
Jobling 1984-1986: 35–36; CH.R232.7; HVFS.Hism 1
Transliteration
l fṣy bn whblh w ḏkrt lt mnʿ w ʾfṣy w nṣrlh
Translation
By Fṣy son of Whblh; and may Lt remember Mnʿ and ʾfṣy and Nṣrlh

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Jobling: nṣblh for nṣrlh. HVFS.Hism.1: mʿn for mnʿ [probably a misprint] DISCUSSION King (1990: 623) commented: "Jobling (1984–1986: 35–36). I have not seen this publication and the reading are based on the facsimiles reproduced in Jamme 1988: 164".
Commentary
Photograph: Corbett 2010. It was republished in Hayajneh 2017: 193, fig. 4/1. Note that Jobling did not read CH.R232.8 beside this text

Provenance
Tulaylāt Rasīd
Original Reading Credit
King 1990
Original Translation Credit
King 1990

  • Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XVI. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1988.
  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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. Desert Deities: Some New Epigraphic Evidence for the Deities Dushares and al-Lat from the Aqaba-Maʿan Area of Southern Jordan. Religious Traditions 7-9, 1984-1986: 25-40.
  • 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.
  • Hayajneh, H. Die vorislamischen frühnordarabischen Sprachformen in Nordarabien. Pages 171–230 in U. Hübner & H. Niehr (eds), Sprachen in Palästina im 2. und 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr. (Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Veriens, 43). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2017.
Site
Wādī Ḥafīr, Al-‘Aqabah Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Drawing, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0051626
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