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TIJ 255

Siglum
TIJ 255
Alternative Sigla
King 1990: 663
Transliteration
l {g}rḏ
Translation
By {Grḏ}

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Harding & Littmann: yrḏ rather than {g}rḏ. DISCUSSION King (1990: 663) commented: "The letter read as y in TIJ is most probably a g. The line joining the two circles is rather elongated. The second circle is what has been read as an ʿ in TIJ 254".

Original Reading Credit
King 1990
Original Translation Credit
King 1990

  • Harding, G.L. & Littmann, E. Some Thamudic Inscriptions from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Leiden: Brill, 1952.
  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.
Site
ʿAyn Sidd, Al-‘Aqabah Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Name only
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0051206
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