JSTham 562

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Jaussen & Savignac: s²ṣʿn b gmʿ for ḫṣʿn b fgʿ; Winnett: s²s¹ʿn rather than ḫṣʿn; van den Branden: ṣlmʿn for ḫṣʿn. DISCUSSION Winnett 1937: 28.
Commentary: The sign at the end of the text has been clipped by the edge of the photograph. There is a straight line between the final letter and the sign. It is longer than the word-divider and is on the same level as the letters. Given the frequency of the name fgʿ it seems unlikely that it is a letter and it may simply be intended to separate the text from the sign.

Associated Signs: At the end, a vertical line with a pair of diagonal lines running up near the top, a pair running down near the bottom.

[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 151
[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 610 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 307 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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