Esk. 185

Text Information

Siglum
Esk. 185
Alternative Sigla
Kootstra 2016: 118
Transliteration
lm s¹mh / b qny / ḥl ----
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Translation
By S¹mh son of Qny camped ----
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Language and Script
Taymanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Eskoubi: wmh rather than s¹mh. He reads at the end ḥll b- ddn without comment, but the last five letters are invisible on the photograph. TRANSLATION ḥl----, Kootstra: 'he was a soldier...'

  • [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 257
  • Kootstra, F. The Language of the Taymanitic Inscriptions and its Classification. Arabian Epigraphic Notes 2, 2016: 67–140
Site
Ṣafāt al-Mārdah, near to Taymāʾ, Tabūk Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Camping, Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0040246
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