Esk. 001

Siglum: Esk. 001
Alternative Sigla: Kootstra 2016: 111, Ph 279.ay
Transliteration: kfrʾl / b ṣʿn / hrg / h- ġlm
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Translation: By / son of Ṣʿn Kfrʾl son of Ṣʿn had sex with the slave-boy
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Language and Script: Taymanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Eskoubi: ḫnʿn hnʿ h- blm rather than ṣʿn/hrg/h- ġlm; van den Branden (Philby 279 ay): kʿrʾl / b- ḍ{w}n /hrm / h- ġlm; Kootstra: h{r/s²}{g/ʿ} for hrg. TRANSLATION van den Branden (Philby 279 ay): hrm h- ġlm, '(he) desired ardently the young man'; Eskoubi: 'Kfrʾl son of Ḫnʿn, the lord of this camel with disability'; h- rg h- ġlm, Kootstra: 'the rg, the junior'.
Commentary: The copy shown here is Philby 279 ay. On Taymāʾ Hinterland Survey photographs, the first letter of the patronym is clearly a "crossed: ṣ and the third letter of the name a n carved back-to-front (as often in Taymanitic), with the word-divider immediately to the right of its top. A name ṣʿn has been found before, in Safaitic. The verb hrg has been explained on the basis of Classical Arabic haraǧa which among other things can mean "he had sex with" (Lane 1863-1893: 2890b). It would also be possible to explain hrg on the basis of Hebrew hārag "to kill".

Associated Signs: Above the text a Taymanitic b with a dot above it and a vertical line to the left, in same technique and same patina as text

[Esk] Eskūbī [Eskoubi] Ḫ.M. Dirāsah taḥlīliyyah muqāranah li-nuqūš min minṭaqah (rum) ǧanūb ġarb taymāʾ. [English title: An Analytical and Comparative Study of Inscriptions from “Rum” region, South West of Tayma. Riyāḍ: wazīrat al-maʿārif, waqālat al-āṯār wa-l-matāḥif, 1999. pp 45–46
Kootstra, F. The Language of the Taymanitic Inscriptions and its Classification. Arabian Epigraphic Notes 2, 2016: 67–140
[Lane] Lane, E.W. An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived from the Best and Most Copious Eastern Sources. (Volume 1 in 8 parts [all published]). London: Williams & Norgate, 1863-1893.
[Ph] Van den Branden, A. Les textes thamoudéens de Philby. (2 volumes). (Bibliothèque du Muséon, 39 and 41). Louvain: Institut orientaliste, 1956.

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