WDum 2
Text Information
- Siglum
- WDum 2
- Alternative Sigla
- WTI 22
- Transliteration
- h rḍw wdd ʿw{ḏ/ḍ} ʿw{ḏ/ḍ} ʿh
- Translation
- O Rḍw ʿw{ḏ/ḍ} loves {ʿwḏ/ḍ} ʿh
Interpretation
- Commentary
- Winnett identified the script of three inscriptions from near Sakākā as "Jawfian" (Winnett & Reed 1970: 69, 80) which Macdonald suggested would be better labelled "Dumaitic" (2000: 33). However, given that only three graffiti in this script have been found, and that the only differences between Dumaitic and Taymanitic lie in the shape of ḍ (WDum 1–3), a possible ḏ (WDum 2) and z (WDum 1), the script of these three texts may be Taymanitic with these three idiosyncratic letter shapes.
- Associated Inscriptions
- Winnett, F.V. & Reed, W.L. Ancient Records from North Arabia. with contributions by J.T. Milik and J. Starcky. (Near and Middle East Series, 6). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970. No. 22
- Macdonald, M.C.A. Reflections on the linguistic map of pre-Islamic Arabia. Arabian archaeology and epigraphy 11, 2000: 28-79. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda, as Article III in Macdonald, M.C.A., Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia. (Variorum Collected Studies, 906). Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.]
- Site
- Sakākā, Al-Ǧawf (Al-Jawf) Province, Saudi Arabia
- Date Found
- 1962
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Deity, Isolated Prayer
- Script
- Dumaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0051939
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