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Interpretation

Commentary: m{ʿ}y: Two possible readings of this name are mʿy or ms¹y, depending upon how one reads the various thinner and thicker lines between the m and the y. For the reading of mʿy, there seems to be a small diamond shape between the letters that resembles a ʿ. An alternative reading of this shape would read the two thicker lines as an upside-down s¹ and discount the thinner circle around it as extraneous. {ḥ}ẓ: The first letter looks like a ḏ as the stem is longer than one would usually expect from a ḥ. Given that, a name of "ḏẓ" would be very unlikely.

Associated Inscriptions

Inscriptions recorded during the Badia Epigraphic Survey 2020 and published here

Site: Wādī al-Mismā al-Šarqī, c. 52 km north-west of Al-Ruwayšid, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan