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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KWM 01

Text Information

Siglum
KWM 01
Alternative Sigla
King 1990: 636
Transliteration
l s¹ʿdlh bn km ḏ- ʾl fḥmn w wgm ʿl km w ʿl ʾrs² w ʿl hnʾt w ʿl ʾnḍ{r}{t}
Translation
By S¹ʿdlh son of Km of the lineage of Fḥmn; and he grieved for Km and for ʾrs² and for Hnʾt and for {ʾnḍrt}

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT King (1989: 38): wṯm rather than wgm. DISCUSSION King (1990: 636) commented: "Both the ḍ and r of the last name are faint".

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 [Unpublished]. 1990.
  • King, G.M.H. Some Inscriptions from Wadi Matakh. Pages 37-55 in M.M. Ibrahim (ed.), Arabian Studies in Honour of Mahmoud Ghal. Symposium at Yarmouk University, 8th-11th december 1984. (Yarmouk University Publications: Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology Series, 2). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1989.
Site
Wādī Mataḫ, south-east of Maʿān, Maʿān Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Genealogy, Grieving
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0051823
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