MEEK
Text Information
- Siglum
- MEEK
- Alternative Sigla
- King 1990: 641
- Transliteration
- l ʿqrbn bn ġṯlh ḏ- ʾl mʿnʾl w ḏkrt lt ʾs¹lmt w tmlh w {r}hdt w mqm w ns¹r w tm
- Translation
- By ʿqrbn son of Ġṯlh of the lineage Mʿnʾl and may Lt remember ʾs¹lmt and Tmlh and {Rhdt} and Mqm and Ns¹r and Tm
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TEXT Winnett: nġḍlh rather than ġṯlh, ʾḫs²mt for ʾs¹lmt, w bhn for w {r}hdt and w bhdlt rather than w ns¹r. DISCUSSION King (1990: 641) commented: "The first letter of the third name of the prayer is larger than the other r's in the text. For this type of prayer, see Ch.4.C.1".
- Provenance
- This inscription was purchased at Sidon by the late Professor A.S. Carrier of McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, while travelling in the Near East in 1906 (Winnett 1937: 5)
- Original Reading Credit
- King 1990
- Original Translation Credit
- King 1990
- Winnett, F.V. A Study of the Liḥyanite and Thamudic Inscriptions. (University of Toronto Studies - Oriental Series, 3). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1937.
- 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
- Jordan
- Current Location
- Royal Ontario Museum (West Asiatic no. 973–143)
- Subjects
- Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Religion
- Script
- Hismaic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0051886
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