TM.T.023

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Jamme: myt at the end of the text. TRANSLATION Jamme: 'By Guwār. ʾAws¹at h as died'; tmnyt, Kootstra: 'Taymanites (?)'. DISCUSSION Macdonald 1992: 30–31, for the interpretation of ʾs¹ as 'leader'. Macdonald & Al-Najem (2016) commented: "A large slab of yellowish sandstoen (56 x 47 x 10 cms) found during the Saudi Arabian excavations at Taymāʾ in the 1980s, possibly during the soundings made by Livingstone and others in 1982, though no mentions is made of its origin. The n of tmnyt seems to have been omitted by accident and was then squeezed in between the m and the y. Tmnyt was probably a social group within the oasis or a quarter of the town. See the discussion in Macdonald 1992: 31".

Macdonald, M.C.A. North Arabian Epigraphic Notes I. Arabian archaeology and epigraphy 3, 1992: 23-43.
Livingstone, A., Spaie, B., Ibrahim, M., Kamal, M., Taimani, S. Taimāʾ: Recent Soundings and New Inscribed Material (1402 AH — 1982 AD). Atlal 7, 1983: 102-116, pl. 83-97.
Jamme, A. Three Thamudic inscriptions from Taymāʾ, Ja[T] 84-86. Pages 9-17 in A. Jamme, Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XIV. Washington, DC: [privately printed], 1985.
Macdonald, M.C.A. & Al-Naǧem [Al-Najem], M. Catalogue of the Inscriptions in the Taymāʾ Museum and other collections, with contributions from F. Imbert, J. Norris & P. Stein. Oxford, 2023