ʿAlaqān Tham 1
Text Information
- Siglum
- ʿAlaqān Tham 1
- Transliteration
-
ʾn klbw bn ks¹yr
Tokunaga & Altarib 2024
- Translation
-
I am Klbw son of Ks¹yr
Tokunaga & Altarib 2024
- Language and Script
- Thamudic D
Interpretation
- Commentary
This text confirms the identification of the trident glyph 🝑 as having the phonemic value /k/ rather than /ḥ/ as previously assumed (Al-Jallad 2025). The inscription forms a bilingual text with ʿAlaqān NabAr 1; it was re-used as the headstone of a modern grave in the ʿAlaqān cemetery. Its original provenance is unknown and is now housed at the Tabūk Museum (Tokunaga & Altarib 2024).
- Editio Princeps
- Tokunaga & Altarib 2024
- Technique
- Carved
- Direction of Script
- Right to left
- Associated Inscriptions
- [ʿAlaqān Tham] Thamudic inscriptions documented in the survey of the Saudi Heritage Commission in July 2023 in the ʿAlaqān cemetery
- Al-Jallad, A. Towards the decipherment of Thamudic D: an identification of new phoneme-glyph values and letter shapes. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 2025: 1–29
- Tokunaga, R. & Altarib, A. A Pre-Islamic Bilingual Inscription of ʿAlaqān, Northwest Saudi Arabia. A poster presented at The 57th Seminar for Arabian Studies Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris June 27-29, 2024: https://www.academia.edu/121611333/A_Pre_Islamic_Bilingual_Inscription_of_%CA%BFAlaq%C4%81n_Northwest_Saudi_Arabia
- Site
- ʿAlaqān, Tabūk Province, Saudi Arabia
- Date Found
- June 2023
- Current Location
- Tabūk Museum
- Subjects
- Bilingual, Genealogy
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Updated
16 Jan, 2025
by
Ahmad Al-Jallad