Language | Aramaic » Middle Aramaic » Nabataean |
Alphabet | Aramaic |
Script typology | Graffito |
1 | S. al-Theeb reads ḥyw qrʾ but the first letter of the second word is definitely a ṣ, not a q, and the sign after it is an X sign, as in ThNIS 5. |
English | |
1 Ḥy, he drew. |
1 | S. al-Theeb translates “Ḥyw the reader” but the sign after the r is not an ʾ, it is an X sign preceded by two letters, ṣr, which can be interpreted as a suffix conjugation of the root Ṣ-W-R, “to draw”. |
Hayajneh 2009: 208 | Hayajneh, Hani 2009. Ancient North Arabian-Nabataean bilingual inscriptions from southern Jordan. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 39: 203-222. |
Link to object record |
Modern site | as-Sīj |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Northwest Arabia |
Country | Saudi Arabia |
Link to site record |
al-Theeb 2011: 362, no. 19, fig. 9 | al-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. |