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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

MA 6

Text Information

Siglum
MA 6
Transliteration
l trml bn yʿly bn ḍhdt bn s¹dy
Translation
By Trml son of Yʿly son of Ḍhdt son of S¹dy

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
MA ḫrml for trml
Commentary
The second letter is too small to be read as a ḫ (cf the the t of ḍhdt). The name is new but perhaps cf. Arabic tarm¡l (maṣdar of rml II) "defiling" or tarammul (maṣdar of V) "being defiled: (Lane 1159b and c). But are maṣdars used as names?

Original Reading Credit
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Original Translation Credit
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Special Letter Forms
The ḍ is very squat
Technique
Chiselled

  • Al-Maʿānī [Maani, Al-Maʿani], S.ʿA. & Al-Aǧlūnī [Al-Ajlouni], F. Safaitic Inscriptions From the Eastern Part of Mafraq Governorate / Jordan. Adumatu 8, 2003: 33-49.
Site
Wādī Salmā, Jordan
Current Location
Al-Mafraq Antiquities Office and Museum
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0017842
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