Nabataean

Corpus of Nabataean Inscriptions


ThNIS 7-9
By kind permission of Badr al-Faqayr

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAramaic » Middle Aramaic » Nabataean
AlphabetAramaic
Script typologyGraffito

TEXT


   1  dkyr khylw br dsy b-ṭb

Apparatus
1S. al-Theeb reads dmy for dsy here as well as in ThNIS 16 and 20, but the second letter should be read as a s.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  May Khylw son of Dsy be remembered in well-being.

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: 353-354, no. 7, fig. 4al-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.