TM.T.024

Siglum: TM.T.024
Alternative Sigla: Taymāʾ Museum register 426
Transliteration: lm ṣmtr b ʾrʾ ḥll b- lwʿl ʾmr ṣlm l ʾns¹ l {f}---- d{d}n/qnʿm
Translation: By Ṣmtr son of ʾrʾ and he camped at Lwʿl the command of Ṣlm By ʾns¹ By {f}---- {Ddn} qnʿm

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: The lines number below refer to the OCIANA reading not those of Kootstra. TEXT Line 2. Kootstra: b{ʿ/y}{l}{s²/f}{ʿ}l rather than b- lwʿl. TRANSLATION Line 4. Kootstra: 'for mankind'. DISCUSSION Macdonald & Al-Najem (2016): "Large (120 x 47 x 21 cm) with a hollow at each end of the inscribed face, similar to the example from Qaṣr al-Ḥamrāʾ shown in situ in Abu-Duruk 1986, pls 36/2, 39/1–2, 47/1–2, and fig. 10/XX, though, unlike these, TM.T.024 is intact. The inscriptions are between the hollows. Lines 1–4 are chiselled. Line 5 is lightly scratched. Not previously unpublished. Tentatively, I would suggest that line 2 was carved first and then spread onto line 1 and continued vertically in line 4. Later lines 3 and 5 were carved by others. However, other explanations are also possible. It seems likely that these graffiti were carved after the stone had ceased to be used as an offering table, if that indeed was its original function".

Abu-Duruk, H.I. & Murad, A. Preliminary Report on Qasr Al-Hamra Excavations, Tayma, Third Season 1405/1985. Atlal 10, 1986: 29-35, pls 29-56.
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