JSTham 402

Interpretation

Commentary: Van den Branden (1950: 267) regarded JSTham 401–403 as "liḥyanite" (i.e. Dadanitic), but the photograph in Eskoubi 1999: 160 shows that it is more likely that JSTham 402 is Taymanitic. There are traces of another text below this one, but the letters are clipped by the edge of the photograph and it has not been identified with any of the JSTham texts.

Associated Signs: Above the text but not necessarily connected with it, a horned visage with eyes but no nose or mouth, and to the left of the end a huge two-pronged fork.

[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 160–161
[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 583 Plate CXLV
[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 267 Plate XVII

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

Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA

OCIANA. 'JSTham 402.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/1706. Accessed: 20 Jun, 2025.