TM.T.027

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TRANSLATION s¹ʾlt, Kootstra: 'I asked'. DISCUSSION Macdonald & Al-Najem (2016) commented: "A long piece of sandstone (106 x 33 x 30 cm) found in the Saudi Arabian excavations of Qaṣr al-Hamrāʾ in 1979–1980 among rubble above layer 5, possibly partly resting on offering table XX, in the open space near door 2 of wall V and between wall L and pillar JJ (see Abu Duruk 1986, 67). At the left end of the stone, before the beginning of the text, a wasm consisting of two counterposed Taymanitic ls with a cone between them, is repeated twice".

[Abu Duruk ANA] Abu-Duruk, H.I. Introduction to the Archaeology of Taymāʾ. Thesis presented for the degreee of Doctor of Philosophy at the Department of Semitic Studies, University of Leeds 1981, entitled "A Critical and Comparative Discussion of Certain Ancient Monuments (part of the city wall, Qasr ar-Radm, and Qasr al Hamrāʾ). Riyadh: Department of Antiquities and Museums, 1986.
[TM.T.] 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

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