TIJ 498

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT TIJ 498: ḥrmn rather than kms². Jamme (1968: 104) suggests that this text is Safaitic. DISCUSSION King (1990: 673) commented: "The first l has a definite hook and the second one only a slight one. The final letter is a straight line. Ryckmans, G. 1937: 344, van den Branden 1950: 497 and Jamme 1968: 104, n. 56 are correct in reading the first letter of the second name as k. The letter read as r is, however, a somewhat indistinct dot and is almost certainly incidental".

Jamme, A. Minaean Inscriptions Published as Liḥyanite. [privately printed]. Washington, DC, 1968. pp 104, n. 56
Ryckmans, G. Notes épigraphiques. Deuxième série. Le Muséon 50, 1937: 323-344.
Harding, G.L. & Littmann, E. Some Thamudic Inscriptions from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Leiden: Brill, 1952.
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 [Unpublished]. 1990.