Esk. 013

Text Information

Siglum
Esk. 013
Alternative Sigla
Kootstra 2016: 72
Transliteration
l bʾrl / rḍw
ṣlm
OCIANA
Translation
By Bʾrl. May Ṣlm
be pleased
OCIANA
Language and Script
Taymanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus

TRANSLATION Eskoubi: 'By Brʾl, Rḍ (deity) and Ṣlm (deity)'.

Commentary

There is what looks like a l a little way to the right of the beginning of the text and separated from it by a horizontal line which touches the lām auctoris. The text is written boustrophedon starting from right-to-left.

Associated Signs
Above the beginning, horizontally, a straight line with 2 opposed pairs of branches.

  • [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 56–57
  • Kootstra, F. The Language of the Taymanitic Inscriptions and its Classification. Arabian Epigraphic Notes 2, 2016: 67–140
Site
Waḍaḥā Alif, south of Taymāʾ, Tabūk Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0040148
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Updated 28 Mar, 2026 by Michael Macdonald

Cite this Site

OCIANA, 'Esk. 013,' ed. A. Al-Jallad and M.C.A. Macdonald, OCIANA, 28 Mar, 2026. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/22802. Accessed: 15 Apr, 2026.