JSTham 497

Siglum: JSTham 497
Alternative Sigla: Esk. 044 (line 1), Ph 280.al, van den Branden 1950: 289–290
Transliteration: lm ṣ{n}l / b kfr / b ʾby [sign]
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Translation: By {Ṣnl} son of Kfr son of ʾby [sign]
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Language and Script: Taymanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Jaussen & Savignac: l mṣmlb kfr b ṣbym for lm ṣ{n}l b kfr b ʾby [sign]; van den Branden: lm ṣlml b kfr b ṣby for lm ṣ{n}l b kfr b ʾby [sign]; Eskoubi: ṣby for ʾby [sign].
Commentary: Read as a single text by Jaussen & Savignac (1909–1920, ii: 598–599), but as one text with Esk. 44 (line 2) by Eskoubi. The reading is from left-to-right.

Associated Signs: At the beginning of the text there is the sign like at Taymanitic b with a short diagonal line rising internally from the foot of the left vertical. There is a similar sign at the beginning of JSTham 498. Cf. JSTham 514 and 521 where a similar sign is followed on the left by a straight vertical stroke.

[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 100–101
[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 598–599 Plate CXLVII
[Ph] Van den Branden, A. Les textes thamoudéens de Philby. (2 volumes). (Bibliothèque du Muséon, 39 and 41). Louvain: Institut orientaliste, 1956.

Site: Al-Ḫabū al-Šarqī Alif, south-east of Taymāʾ, Tabūk Province, Saudi Arabia

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