HE 24

Siglum
HE 24
Alternative Sigla
Kootstra 2016: 118
Transliteration
w mn s¹mʿ l ṣlm l twy
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Translation
And whoever listens to Ṣlm and whoever listens to Ṣlm will not perish
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Language and Script
Taymanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TRANSLATION ltwy, Winnett: ’let him bow down’. The reading here is that of Kootstra 2016: 118. DISCUSSION Dayton 1967: 27. Winnett 1980: 134–135, on mn s¹mʿ l- ṣlm ltwy.
Commentary
1st letter is on an adjoining block with a horned visage. Only the last 2 letters turn down.

  • Dayton, J.E. Teyma Arabian Seat of the Last King of Babylon. ILN, August the 19th. 1967, Archaeology 2272, 1967: 26-27.
  • Kootstra, F. The Language of the Taymanitic Inscriptions and its Classification. Arabian Epigraphic Notes 2, 2016: 67–140
  • [HE] Parr, P.J., Harding, G.L. & Dayton, J.E. Preliminary Survey in N.W. Arabia, 1968 [Part I: Archaeology (continued), and Part II: Epigraphy, by G.L. Harding, A.F.L Beeston and J.T. Milik]. Bulletin of the Institute of Archaeology, University of London 10, 1971 [1972]: 23-61, pls 1-31. pp 41, fig. 8 Plate 20
  • Winnett, F.V. A Reconsideration of Some Inscriptions from the Tayma Area. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 10, 1980: 133-140.
Site
Minṭār Banī ʿAtiyyah (east face), near to Taymāʾ, Tabūk Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0040385
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