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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

ThSaf 18

Text Information

Siglum
ThSaf 18
Transliteration
l ʿqrb bn wḏmt
Translation
By ʿqrb son of Wḏmt

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
ThNSMS 2: "gḏmt" for "wḏmt"
Commentary
It seems quite clear from the photograph that the first letter of the second name has a line across the loop and should be read as a w.

Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Special Letter Forms
n's are dots
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
King Saud University Museum
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0018421
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