JSTham 531

Siglum: JSTham 531
Alternative Sigla: Esk. 066, van den Branden 1950: 298–299, Winnett 1937: 26
Transliteration: yr{f}ʾ / b yrfʾ [sign]
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Translation: By / son of Yrfʾ {Yrfʾ} son of Yrfʾ [sign]
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Language and Script: Taymanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Jaussen & Savignac followed by van den Branden: yrgʾ b yrgʾ rather than yr{f}ʾ b yrfʾ; Eskoubi: yrḍ s¹by rʿʾh for yr{f}ʾ b yrfʾ.

Associated Signs: At the end of the text, a sign consisting of a long vertical with a fork at the top, with three-quarters of the way down a long diagonal to the left with a fork at the top. Jaussen and Savignac do not reproduce the sign accurately in their copy.

[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 123–124
[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 605 Plate CXLVIII
[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 298–299 Plate XVIII
[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-Šarqī Alif, south-east of Taymāʾ, Tabūk Province, Saudi Arabia

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