JSTham 439

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Jaussen & Savignac followed by van den Branden and Eskoubi: rʿwb rather than rʿḍb [dot].
Commentary: The letters after kkb (only three of which are visible on Eskoubi's photograph) are slightly higher and seem darker on the photograph, but this is probably because of a fold in the rock.

Associated Signs: Around the beginning of the text there are four signs. (1) Above is a Taymanitic b with a small horizontal line protruding to the left from the top and a dot next to the mid point of the left leg. (2) Just to the right of the beginning and slightly higher is a large Safaitic z. (3). Below the first two letters is a cross with a V tilted slightly to the left attached to the top. (4) to the left of (3) a crescent enclosing a circle tilted slightly to the left.

[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 175
[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 590 Plate CXLVI
[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 Bāʾ, south-east of Taymāʾ, Tabūk Province, Saudi Arabia

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