DHH 12
Text Information
- Siglum
- DHH 12
- Transliteration
-
l qnʾdm bn qnnmr w bny
Theeb 2016
- Translation
-
By Qnʾdm son of Qnnmr and he built
Theeb 2016
- Language and Script
- Safaitic 1
Interpretation
- Commentary
-
The names qnʾdm and qnnmr are unique in ANA. The element qn could be 'servant', but the identity of ʾdm 'red' or 'man' and nmr 'leopard' remains unclear. They do not appear as divine names in the corpus. The inscription is probably connected to a structure nearby that was not carefully recorded.
- Editio Princeps
- Al-Theeb 2016
- Technique
- Carved
- Direction of Script
- Coil
- [DHH] Al-Ḏīyīb [Al-Theeb], Sulayman A. and Al-Hayšān, Madallah bin ʿuwayḍah. Nuqūš ṣafawiyyah (ṣafāʾiyyah) min Qāʿ al-ʾarnabiyyah ʾUmm Ǧudayr wa-l-ʿamāriyyah fī šamāl al-mamlakah al-ʿarabiyyah al-saʿūdiyyah. Ar-Riyāḍ: Markaz al-malik fayṣal li-l-buḥūṯ wa-ʾl-dirāsāt al-islāmiyyah, 1437/2016.
- Site
- Al-Ǧawf area, Al-Ǧawf (Al-Jawf) Province, Saudi Arabia
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Building, Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0053194
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Updated
24 Feb, 2026
by
Ahmad Al-Jallad
Cite this Site
Theeb 2016, 'DHH 12,' ed. A. Al-Jallad and M.C.A. Macdonald, OCIANA, 24 Feb, 2026. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/42512. Accessed: 24 Mar, 2026.