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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

TIJ 217

Siglum
TIJ 217
Alternative Sigla
King 1990: 662
Transliteration
l whblh bn s¹ʿd bn wh----
Translation
By Whblh son of S¹ʿd son of Wh----

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Harding & Littmann: w rather than wh----. DISCUSSION King (1990: 662) commented: "After the first b there is an ʾ in the field copy and what might be a l. Possibly the author wrote whbʾl and then, having realised his mistake, wrote lh and continued in a slightly different direction".
Commentary
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Original Reading Credit
King 1990
Original Translation Credit
King 1990

  • Harding, G.L. & Littmann, E. Some Thamudic Inscriptions from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Leiden: Brill, 1952.
  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
West side of Wādī Ramm, First bay north of the Fort, Al-‘Aqabah Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0051168
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