JSTham 695+696

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Jaussen & Savignac: w mlṯ l ʾml (JSTham 695) rather than {ḏ} ʾl gs²m w l ḥdn (JSTham 696) rather than l ḥds². DISCUSSION King (1990: 632) commented: "The fourth letter is a short line and perhaps it should be read n. The copy is probably incomplete although the possibility that the tribal name is gs²mw cannot be discounted".
Commentary: On reading the lineage name as gs²mw see Macdonald 2018: 236.

[JSTham] Jaussen, A. & Savignac, M.R. Mission archéologique en Arabie. I. (Mars-Mai 1907) De Jérusalem au Hedjaz, Médain Saleh. II. El-ʿEla, d'Hégra à Teima Harrah de Tebouk. Texte et Atlas. III. Les châteaux arabes de Quṣeir ʿAmra, Ḫarâneh, et Tûba. (5 volumes). (Publications de la Société Française des Fouilles Archéologiques, 2). [Reprinted Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1997]. Paris: Leroux/Geuthner, 1909–1920. Vol. II pp 631 Plate CLI
[AMJ] 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 [Unpublished]. 1990.
Macdonald, M.C.A. Clues as to how a Nabataean may have spoken from a Hismaic inscription. Pages 231–239 in G.R. Smith, Near Eastern and Arabian Essays: Studies in Honour of John Healey. (Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement, 41) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018

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