JSTham 372

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Jaussen & Savignac: l ḫrʾl rather than ʿzrʾl; van den Branden: ʿḏrʾl for ʿzrʾl.
Commentary: The letters are all joined either by proximity or by ligatures and the first is joined by a ligature to the last of the three signs. Cf. Esk.005.

Associated Signs: L-R: (1) A vertical line with a dot on each side of the top and a V a third of the way down, and at the bottom an upside-down Safaitic ẓ.; (2) A horned visage with no features, the horns being used to join it to the signs of either side. (3) A vertical with counterposed Vs at either end and and a short upward diagonal to the left from the middle of the left stroke of the lower V. To the left of (1), but not apparently connected with the text (though there is nothing to the left of it, see Esk. p. 216) is (4) (L-R) a short vertical + a Taymanitic b + a dot. Below the end of the text is a sign (5) and upside-down Taymanitic l + a dot + a Taymanitic l + a dot, and below the first dot a vertical line.

[Esk] Eskūbī [Eskoubi] Ḫ.M. Dirāsah taḥlīliyyah muqāranah li-nuqūš min minṭaqah (rum) ǧanūb ġarb taymāʾ. [English title: An Analytical and Comparative Study of Inscriptions from “Rum” region, South West of Tayma. Riyāḍ: wazīrat al-maʿārif, waqālat al-āṯār wa-l-matāḥif, 1999. pp 212
[JSTham] Jaussen, A. & Savignac, M.R. Mission archéologique en Arabie. I. (Mars-Mai 1907) De Jérusalem au Hedjaz, Médain Saleh. II. El-ʿEla, d'Hégra à Teima Harrah de Tebouk. Texte et Atlas. III. Les châteaux arabes de Quṣeir ʿAmra, Ḫarâneh, et Tûba. (5 volumes). (Publications de la Société Française des Fouilles Archéologiques, 2). [Reprinted Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1997]. Paris: Leroux/Geuthner, 1909–1920. Vol. II pp 577 Plate CXLIV
[HU] The inscriptions recorded by Charles Huber as renumbered in Van den Branden, A. Les inscriptions thamoudéennes. (Bibliothèque du Muséon, 25). Louvain: Institut Orientaliste de l'Université de Louvain, 1950. pp 314 Plate XVII

Site: Al-Ḫabū al-Ġarbī, south-south-west of Taymāʾ, Tabūk Province, Saudi Arabia

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