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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KWM 17

Text Information

Siglum
KWM 17
Alternative Sigla
King 1990: 637
Transliteration
l bḥs²s² bn ʿbb w ḥdṯ ṯyt
Translation
By Bḥs²s² son of ʿbb; and he made a sheepfold

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT King (1989: 51): ḥdḍ ḍyt rather than ḥdṯ ṯyt.

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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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, Structure
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0051839
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