KGH 3
Text Information
- Siglum
- KGH 3
- Alternative Sigla
- Jamme 1983: 188; King 1990: 636
- Transliteration
- l qn bn ʿbt w wgm ʿl- ḥmrt w bny
- Translation
- By Qn son of ʿbt and he grieved for Ḥmrt and he built
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TEXT Knauf: ʿbt for nʿrt and wṯm rather than wgm. DISCUSSION King (1990: 636) commented: "Jamme (1983: 188) is correct in the reading of the second name. The n is clear on the rock". Knauf (1980: 171) reads as Safaitic.
- Commentary
- Labelled as KnEG 3 in King (1990: 636).
- Provenance
- Ḥismā region
- Original Reading Credit
- King 1990
- Original Translation Credit
- King 1990
- Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XIII. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1983.
- Knauf, E.A. Eine Gruppe safaitischer Inschriften aus der Ḥesmā. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 96, 1980: 169-173, pl. 11-13.
- 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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 Madfūf, Al-‘Aqabah Governorate, Jordan
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Building, Genealogy, Grieving
- Script
- Hismaic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0051550
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