KGH 5
Text Information
- Siglum
- KGH 5
- Alternative Sigla
- King 1990: 636
- Transliteration
-
l hnʾ bn gḥl w wgm ʿl- ḥmrt w bny
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- Translation
-
By Hnʾ son of Gḥl and he grieved for Ḥmrt and he built
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- Language and Script
- Hismaic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TEXT Knauf: ṯḥl for gḥl and wṯm rather than wgm. DISCUSSION King (1990: 636) commented: "There is a l and a n after bny which are slightly shallower than the other letters of the text". Knauf (1980: 172) reads as Safaitic
- Commentary
- Labelled as KnEG 5 in King (1990: 636).
- Editio Princeps
- King 1990
- [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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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.
- Site
- Ǧabal Madfūf, Al-‘Aqabah Governorate, Jordan
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Building, Genealogy, Grieving
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0051552
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