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Al-Anṣārī & Abū ʾl-Hasan 1423/2002: 39

Text Information

Siglum
Al-Anṣārī & Abū ʾl-Hasan 1423/2002: 39
Alternative Sigla
Hayajneh 2009: 84–86, fig. 2
Transliteration
lm wdd/b rḥm/ḥll b- zy s²nʾ/ʿm ṣlm
Translation
By Wdd son of Rḥm camped during the (time of the) hostility in (the year) of Ṣlm

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Kootstra: lḥm rather than rḥm. TRANSLATION ʿm, Kootstra: 'the people'. DISCUSSION Hayajneh 2009: 84–86.
Commentary
Mislabelled as "naqš liḥyānī" in al-Anṣāry & Abū ʾl-Hasan 1423/2002: 39. The text is written boustrophedon starting from right-to-left.

Original Reading Credit
Hayajneh 2009: 84-86, fig. 2
Original Translation Credit
Hayajneh 2009: 84-86, fig. 2

  • Hayajneh, H. Fie frühnordarabischen taymānischen Inschriften und die Frage der Antipathie gegen den Gott Ṣlm in der Region von Taymāʾ. Pages 73-104 in W. Arnold, M. Jursa, W.W. Müller, & S. Procházka (eds), Philologisches und Historisches zwischen Anatolien und Sokotra. Analecta Semitica In Memoriam Alexander Sima. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009.
  • Hayajneh, H. Ancient North Arabian. Pages 756-781 in S. Weninger (ed.), The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook. (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikations-wissenschaft, 36). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.
  • Al-Anṣārī [Al-Ansary], ʿA.Ṭ. & Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D. Tayma. Crossroads of Civilizations. (Prominent Cities on the Frankincense Route Series, 2). [English translation of the Arabic original published in 1423/2002]. Al-Riyāḍ: Dār al-qawāfil, 1426/2005.
Site
Near to Taymāʾ, Tabūk Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Camping, Date (other), Deity, Genealogy, Religion
Script
Taymanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0040470
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