AMJ 155

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Jobling: nhḍ rather than s¹ṯ; King n{s¹}ṯ for s¹ṯ. DISCUSSION Corbett (2010: 308) commented: "There is a mark just to the upper right of the character s¹. King interprets this mark as n (thus giving the name ns¹ṯ) but, on the basis of more recent photographic evidence, I prefer to see this as an unrelated mark. Also, based on the occurrence of the more common PN yʿly in text #4, it is likely that the letters ʿ and y in the PN ʿyly were carved in the wrong order".
Commentary: Photograph: Corbett 2010.

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 [Unpublished]. 1990.
Jobling, W.J. Prospection archéologique et épigraphique dans la région d'Aqaba-Maʿan. Syria 60, 1983: 317-323.
Corbett, G.J Mapping the mute immortals: A locational and contextual analysis of Thamudic E/Ḥismaic inscriptions and rock drawing from the Wādī Ḥafīr of southern Jordan. PhD Thesis (University of Chicago). 2010.