JaS 1

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Jamme 1959: l ʿrs bn t{b}tl; Milik 1959-1960: 153 read as Thamudic E (= Hismaic): l nbh bn ʾsʾl followed Macdonald 1993: 324 n. 139; Jamme 1968: 140: tstl for t{b}tl . DISCUSSION King (1990: 627–628) commented: "The text is read as Safaitic by the editor although he does point out that the script resembles Thamudic. Milik (1959–1960: 153) re-reads the text as above and classes it as Tham. E".

[JaS] Jamme A. A Safaitic Inscription from the Negev. ‘Atiqot [English Series] 2, 1959: 150-151, pl. 23.
[JaL] Jamme, A. Minaean Inscriptions Published as Liḥyanite. [privately printed]. Washington, DC, 1968. pp 140
[AMJ] 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.
[MNH] Macdonald, M.C.A. Nomads and the Ḥawrān in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods: A reassessment of the epigraphic evidence. Syria 70, 1993: 303-413. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda as Article II in M.C.A. Macdonald, Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia, (Variorum Collected Studies Series no. 906), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009].
Milik, J.T. Notes d'épigraphie et de topographie jordaniennes. Liber Annuus 10, 1959-1960: 147-184.

Site: “Negev V 9591-2” [Label on the object in the Israeli Antiquities Authority], Jordan

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