TIJ 037

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Harding & Littmann: rṯs² bn whblh bn hnʾnmm rather than ----rgs² bn whblh bn hnʾ[m]nt. DISCUSSION King (1990: 653–654) commented: "The reading of the text remains a problem. There is a damaged letter between the l and r which might be a ḫ possibly a t. There is a t at the end of the third name and perhaps the n between the ʾ and m should be taken as incidental and the name hnʾmnt read. The letters m bn ḥr are clear, running from the damaged part of the text to the right. Possibly the writer was using the initial l and the second letter as the beginning of this text as well".

Harding, G.L. & Littmann, E. Some Thamudic Inscriptions from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Leiden: Brill, 1952.
King, G.M.H. Early North Arabian Thamudic E. A preliminary description based on a new corpus of inscriptions from the Ḥismā desert of southern Jordan and published material. Ph.D thesis, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1990. [Unpublished]. 1990.