ThSaf 12
Text Information
- Siglum
- ThSaf 12
- Transliteration
- l mlk bn mʿ{y} bn ʿbd {w} {r}{ʿ}y
- Translation
- By Mlk son of {Mʿy} son of ʿbd {and} {he pastured}
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- ThNSSMAS 12: as ThNS 3 ThNS 3: l mlk bn {m}ʿy bn ʿbd w [b][n]y
- Commentary
- The first y is not legible in the photograph although it appears in the copy. The last part is very doubtful but the photograph suggests the penultimate letter should be read as an ʿ rather than a n and the letter before that in the copy looks more like a r. The reading of the first letter of the second name is doubtful. The name Mʿy is unattested in North Arabian though Mʿyʾ is found once in Palmyrene (Stark 1971: 34 95) and cf. the name Māʿai in Nehemiah 12: 36.
- Provenance
- Jawf area
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Chiselled
- Al-Ḏīyīb [Al-Theeb], S.A. Nuqūš ṣafawīyah min šamālī ʾl-mamlakat al-ʿarabīyat al-saʿūdīyah. Al-Jawf: Muʾasasah ʿAbd al-raḥmān al-Sudairī al-ḫairīyah, 2003.
- Site
- Saudi Arabia
- Current Location
- Jawf Museum of Sciences
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0018415
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