TIJ 192

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Harding & Littmann: lḥ-- bn rs¹m rather than lḥ{g} bn rms¹. DISCUSSION King (1990: 661) commented: "There are the remains of a circle at one edge of the chip after the ḥ. I would read the second name as rms¹ rather than rs¹m as there is no reason, if the author intended the latter, he would have written the m at the side of the other letters rather than directly after the s¹. On the other hand, if he forgot to write the m between the r and the s¹, he would have added it either to the right or the left of those letters".

Provenance: It occurs on a large slanting rock face and its position in relation to each other have not been represented in the published facsimile (King 1999: 661).
Original Reading Credit: King 1990
Original Translation Credit: King 1990

Harding, G.L. & Littmann, E. Some Thamudic Inscriptions from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Leiden: Brill, 1952.
King, G.M.H. Early North Arabian Thamudic E. A preliminary description based on a new corpus of inscriptions from the Ḥismā desert of southern Jordan and published material. Ph.D thesis, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1990. [Unpublished]. 1990.

Site: Rock on the West side of Wādī Ramm, north of the Fort, Al-‘Aqabah Governorate, Jordan