KGH 1

Siglum: KGH 1
Alternative Sigla: King 1990: 635–636, Jamme 1983: 188
Transliteration: l rbbʾl bn ʾm{l}g w wgm ʿl- ḥmrt w bny w ʿl- wdʿ w ʿl- ʿmr
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Translation: By Rbbʾl son of {ʾmlg} and he grieved for Ḥmrt and he built, and for Wdʿ and for ʿmr
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Language and Script: Hismaic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Knauf 1980: ʾm{y}ṯ for ʾm{l}g; wṯm rather than wgm and ʿmr for ʿmr. DISCUSSION King (1990: 635–636) commented: "There is no sign of a circle under the abrasion covering the eleventh letter and it could be restored as either a y, h, s² or l. I would agree with Jamme (1983: 188) in reading a l. The letter is only slightly covered by the damage on the rock and has a small curve for a hook. The last letter of the name is a /g/ and not /ṯ/ as Jamme (1983: 188) suggests". Labelled as KnEG 1 in King (1990: 635). Knauf (1980: 169–171) reads as Safaitic.

[JMAA XIII] Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XIII. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1983.
[AMJ] 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.
[KGH] Knauf, E.A. Eine Gruppe safaitischer Inschriften aus der Ḥesmā. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 96, 1980: 169-173, pl. 11-13.

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