Esk. 170 (second part)

Siglum: Esk. 170 (second part)
Alternative Sigla: Livingstone 2005, no. II, Müller & Saʿīd 2002, no. 2, Hayajneh 2001, no. 2
Transliteration: s¹ktrs¹r / bn [space] s¹rtn / ʾt[w]
mʿ / rbs¹
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Translation: By / son of Space S¹ktrs¹r son of [space] S¹rtn {came}
with Rbs¹
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Language and Script: Taymanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 1. Eskoubi: s¹ktrbl rather than s¹ktrs¹r. Line 2. Hayajneh followed by Müller and Al-Saʿīd, and Livingstone: rbs¹r[s¹] rather than rbs¹.
Commentary: The beginning of this text is above Esk. 169. Eskoubi reads this text and another one as one text.

[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 239–241
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. Pages 105-122 in N. Nebes (ed.), Neue Beiträge zur Semitistik. Erstes Arbeitstreffen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Semitistik in der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft vom 11. bis 13. September 2000 an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. (Jenaer Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient, 5). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2002.

Site: Al-Mušamraḫah, south-south-west of Taymāʾ, Tabūk Province, Saudi Arabia

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