Esk. 177

Siglum: Esk. 177
Alternative Sigla: Livingstone 2005, no. IV, Müller & Saʿīd 2001, no. 4, Hayajneh 2001, no. 6
Transliteration: ʾn ʾnds¹ ḫlm nb{n}d mlk bbl
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Translation: I, ʾnds¹, {servant} of {Nbnd} king of Bbl
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Language and Script: Taymanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Eskoubi: zn rather than ʾn.
Commentary: The photograph was taken at a very sharp angle and so the end of the text is distorted. If the third letter is a ʾ, as it must be, the first must be a z. A Safaitic ʾ, a Taymanitic n and a letter that looks like a Taymanitic/Thamudic B s² but which has been previously read as a Taymanitic ḫ, make it difficult to attribute the script.

[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 251
Hayajneh, H. Der babylonische König Nabonid und der RBSRS in einigen neu publizierten frühnordarabischen Inschriften aus Taymāʾ. Acta Orientalia 62, 2001: 22-64.
Hayajneh, H. First evidence of Nabonidus in the Ancient North Arabian inscriptions from the region of Taymāʾ. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 31, 2001: 81-95.
Livingstone, A. Taimāʾ and Nabonidus. It's a Small World. Pages 29-39 in P. Bienkowski, C. Mee & E. Slater (eds), Writing and Ancient Near Eastern Society. Papers in Honour of Alan R. Millard. (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series, JSOTS.S). New York / London: T. & T. Clark, 2005.
Müller, W.W. & Al-Saʿīd, S.F. Der babylonische König Nabonid in taymanischen Inschriften. Biblische Notizen 107-108, 2001: 109-119.

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