TM.T.035

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: Macdonald & Al-Najem (2016) commented: "A large circular piece of sandstone with a convex underside and flat face (which is inscribed). The maximum dimensions of the inscribed face are 65 x 65 cm. Not previously published. The text appears to be complete since there is ample space after the final letter. It is crudely hammered and the reading of some of the letters is not clear. It begins with a strange tangle of lines which may or may not be a wasm. The first sign looks like a b on its side and is difficult to interpret. There is also a diagonal line above the first name which appears to be extraneous. The form of ṣ is one which is occasionally found as an alternative to the more common one. The names are separated by word-dividers. The most remarkable thing about this text is the presence of a letter which Macdonald has identified in other texts as a possible s³".
Commentary: On the possible presence of the letter s³ in Taymanitic see Macdonald 1991 and 2000: 43, but for a different view see Müller – Al-Said 2002: 113–115.

Macdonald, M.C.A. HU 501 and the Use of s³ in Taymanite. Journal of Semitic Studies 36, 1991: 11-35, pl. 1.
Müller, W.W. & Al-Saʿīd, S.F. Der babylonische König Nabonid in taymanischen Inschriften. Pages 105-122 in N. Nebes (ed.), Neue Beiträge zur Semitistik. Erstes Arbeitstreffen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Semitistik in der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft vom 11. bis 13. September 2000 an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. (Jenaer Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient, 5). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2002.
Macdonald, M.C.A. Reflections on the linguistic map of pre-Islamic Arabia. Arabian archaeology and epigraphy 11, 2000: 28-79. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda, as Article III in Macdonald, M.C.A., Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia. (Variorum Collected Studies, 906). Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.]
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