TIJ 202+203

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Harding & Littmann read two separate texts and ḥnn rather than ṭnn. DISCUSSION King (1990: 661) commented: "The bn and third name are written to the left of the first part of the text. There is no clear l before the second bn, as suggested by the facsimile in TIJ, although there is a hammer mark. The second letter looks more like a ṭ than ḥ. On my photograph the last letter is clearly a b and not a d as in the edition. See TIJ 13, 94".
Commentary: No photograph available.

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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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