Nabataean

Corpus of Nabataean Inscriptions


ThNIS 16-19
al-Theeb 2011: fig. 9
By kind permission of Badr al-Faqayr

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAramaic » Middle Aramaic » Nabataean
AlphabetAramaic
Script typologyGraffito

TEXT


   1  šlm tymw br rwfs
   2  w-rwfs br-h ḥyw ktb

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  May Tymw son of Rwfs
   2  and Rwfs his son be safe. Ḥyw wrote.

OBJECT INFORMATION

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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteas-Sīj
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaNorthwest Arabia
CountrySaudi Arabia
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

al-Theeb 2011: 362, no. 18, fig. 9al-Theeb, Solaiman Abdal-Rahman 2011. New Nabataean inscriptions from the site of al-Sīj in the region of al-‘Ulā, Saudi Arabia. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 41: 349-370.