OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

TM.T.019

Text Information

Siglum
TM.T.019
Alternative Sigla
Taymāʾ Museum register 420
Transliteration
l ʾdḥḥn b– t ġbr
Translation
By ʾdḥḥn daughter of Ġbr

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
Macdonald & Al-Najem (2016) commented: "The stone was in the Department of Antiquities collection at Taymāʾ in 1985 when it was photographed by Willima Facey. A long block of yellowish sandstone (101 x 52 x 19 cm) the surface of which is flaking badly making the inscription very hard to read with confidence. Not previously published. Although the first name is bizarre and seemingly impossible, it does not seem possible to read it any other way".
Commentary
The text is written boustrophedon starting from right-to-left.

  • 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
Site
Taymāʾ area [?], Tabūk Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
Taymāʾ Museum register 420
Subjects
Genealogy, Women
Script
Taymanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0040443
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