ʿAlaqān NabAr 1

Image © Risa Tokunaga & Abdulelah Altarib
Siglum
ʿAlaqān NabAr 1
Transliteration
ʾnh klbw br ksyrw
Tokunaga & Altarib 2024
Translation
I am Klbw son of Ksyrw
Tokunaga & Altarib 2024
Language and Script
Nabataeo-Arabic

Interpretation

Commentary

This text forms a bilingual inscription with ʿAlaqān Tham 1. See DiCoNab for a complete commentary: https://diconab.huma-num.fr/inscriptions/935.

Tokunaga & Altarib 2024

Editio Princeps
Tokunaga & Altarib 2024

Technique
Carved
Direction of Script
Right to left

Associated Inscriptions

  • [ʿAlaqān NabAr] Nabataeo-Arabic inscriptions documented in the survey of the Saudi Heritage Commission in July 2023 in the ʿAlaqān cemetery
  • 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 15 Oct, 2025 by Ahmad Al-Jallad

Cite this Site

2024, Tokunaga & Altarib and Tokunaga & Altarib 2024. 'ʿAlaqān NabAr 1.' OCIANA. 15 Oct, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/44081. Accessed: 09 Jan, 2026.