TA. 09303

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TRANSLATION Kootstra: '...(?) attained foremost glory'.
Commentary: Carved on a large ashlar. Unfortunately, the correct interpretation of the text depends to some extent on the part that has been lost. It is even impossible to reconstruct the first surviving word (----ly) since there are far too many possibilities. However, it is helpful to be able to compare this text with no. TA. 09302 which may refer to the same event. The interpretation adopted here takes fʿl as a noun, equivalent to Arabic fiʿl “action, deed” (see TA. 09302), and rs1 as an Aramaism equivalent to Aramaic rīš “chief”, cf. Arabic raʾīs, rayyīs “headman, chief, governor, commander, etc.” Ḥmd would be the name of a social group here and in TA. 09302.

Provenance: In the east wall of the "temple" (DAI excavations 2005 E3, SU 0242)
Original Reading Credit: OCIANA
Original Translation Credit: OCIANA

Kootstra, F. The Language of the Taymanitic Inscriptions and its Classification. Arabian Epigraphic Notes 2, 2016: 67–140