JSTham 376

Siglum
JSTham 376
Alternative Sigla
Esk. 147, van den Branden 1950: 315, Winnett 1937: 22, 27
Transliteration
l ṣmrfʾ / ʾs¹ / s¹mw
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Translation
By Ṣmrfʾ, leader of S¹mw
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Language and Script
Taymanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Jaussen & Savignac followed by Eskoubi: ṣmrgʾ for ṣmrfʾ. TRANSLATION ʾs¹ s¹mw, Jaussen & Savignac: '!ʾAws¹, S¹amu'; Winnett: 'He has given his name'; van den Branden: '(son of) ʾAws¹, (son of) S¹amū'; Eskoubi: 'ʾws¹, (son of) S¹mw'. DISCUSSION Macdonald 1992: 30-31, for the interpretation of ʾs¹ as 'leader'.
Commentary
There is an erased letter below the r, with to the left of it a Safaitic ʾ.

Associated Signs
Above the word-divider after the first name a sign consisting of a large Taymanitic ḥ with a dot on either side of the base.

  • [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 212–213
  • [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 578 Plate CXLIV
  • [NAEN] Macdonald, M.C.A. North Arabian Epigraphic Notes I. Arabian archaeology and epigraphy 3, 1992: 23-43.
  • [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 315 Plate XVII
  • [WTay] Winnett, F.V. A Study of the Liḥyanite and Thamudic Inscriptions. (University of Toronto Studies - Oriental Series, 3). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1937.
Site
Al-Ḫabū al-Ġarbī, south-south-west of Taymāʾ, Tabūk Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Name only
Old OCIANA ID
#0040232
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