Nabataean

Corpus of Nabataean Inscriptions


ThNIS 20
al-Theeb 2011: fig. 10
By kind permission of Badr al-Faqayr

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAramaic » Middle Aramaic » Nabataean
AlphabetAramaic
Script typologyGraffito

TEXT


   1  khylw br dsy šlm

Apparatus
1Here and in ThNIS 7 and 16, S. al-Theeb reads dmy, but the second letter is an s.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Khylw son of Dsy, may he be safe.

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. 20, fig. 10al-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.