TIJ 204

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT TIJ 204: l t bn ʿmr ṣr rather than ʿbd{s¹}[q]lt bn ʿmr ṣr.
Commentary: King (1990: 662) commented: "The published facsimile has not got the first part of the text which is written down at a right angle to the letters that have been drawn there. The s¹ was copied in the field, although it is not clear on the photograph and I have restored a q on the basis of the name occurring elsewhere, see TIJ 231 and 311. The last word ṣr is probably, as Littmann suggests, Ar. ṣāra 'he returned to the encampment or watering place'. For another example of the lack of w before a verb, see KJC 351". [Unfortunately, it has been impossible to identify the photograph or copy mentioned here].

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 [Unpublished]. 1990.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