MU 1

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Macdonald in Killick 1983: ---- g bn {z} bn {d}{m} b ---- for ----{ḍ} bn ʿẓ bn ʿbdrb----. King 1990: 642: (----ḍ) bn ʿẓ bn ʿdm r ---- for ----{ḍ} bn ʿẓ bn ʿbdrb----. Hayajneh 2017: 193, Abb 5: ----d bn ʿz bn ʿbdrb---- for ----{ḍ} bn ʿẓ bn ʿbdrb----. DISCUSSION King (1990: 642) commented: "The text is broken at the beginning and the end. There are the remains of an inner circle in the first remaining letter which suggests it should be read ḍ. The m of the second name is an unusual shape. There are the remains of another letter after the r which might be part of a m inscribed on its side with the indentation of the left".

King, G.M.H. Early North Arabian Thamudic E. A preliminary description based on a new corpus of inscriptions from the Ḥismā desert of southern Jordan and published material. Ph.D thesis, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1990. [Unpublished]. 1990.
Killick, A.C. Udruh- the Frontier of an Empire. 1980 and 1981 Seasons, a Preliminary Report. Levant 15, 1983: 110-131, pl. 9-12.
Hayajneh, H. Die vorislamischen frühnordarabischen Sprachformen in Nordarabien. Pages 171–230 in U. Hübner & H. Niehr (eds), Sprachen in Palästina im 2. und 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr. (Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Veriens, 43). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2017.