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WAM T 30

Siglum
WAM T 30
Alternative Sigla
King 1990: 676
Transliteration
w mṭr bn ḥkm ḫṭṭ
Translation
And Mṭr son of Ḥkm is [the] drawer

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Winnett: w mḥb rather than w mṭr. TRANSLATION ḫṭṭ, King: 'the inscriber'. DISCUSSION King (1990: 676) commented: "The third letter has not got a tail and the fourth is smaller and more rounded than the b of the bn I would read the name as mṭr rather than mḥb".
Commentary
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Original Reading Credit
King 1990
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

  • Winnett, F.V. An Arabian Miscellany. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli 31 [N.S. 21], 1971: 443-454, pls 1-14.
  • 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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
Ǧabal al-Barrah, Al-‘Aqabah Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Hismaic
Old OCIANA ID
#0052009
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