Nabataean

Corpus of Nabataean Inscriptions


ThNIS 21
al-Theeb 2011: fig. 11
By kind permission of Badr al-Faqayr

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAramaic » Middle Aramaic » Nabataean
AlphabetAramaic
Script typologyGraffito

TEXT


   1  šlm glqwn br gy(d)t pršʾ

Apparatus
1S. al-Theeb reads glqyn for glqwn.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  May Glqwn son of Gy{d}t the horseman be safe.
1The first name is not Glqyn but Glqwn.

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: 363, no. 21, fig. 11al-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.