Nabataean

Corpus of Nabataean Inscriptions


ThNIS 1-5
al-Theeb 2011: fig. 2
By kind permission of Badr al-Faqayr

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAramaic » Middle Aramaic » Nabataean
AlphabetAramaic
Script typologyGraffito

TEXT


   1  ḥnynw pršʾ br mʿydw šlm

Apparatus
1The second name was read mʿydw and not mʿyrw, which is a much more common name in Nabataean, because of the dot over the letter, which distinguishes it from the d in the text.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Ḥnynw the horseman son of Mʿydw, 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: 351-352, no. 3, fig. 2al-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.