ThSaf 43

Siglum: ThSaf 43
Transliteration: l mlkt bnt {ʿ}ṯmn w rġmt mny ġl bn -h ms¹rd
Translation: By Mlkt daughter of {ʿṯmn} and she was struck down by Fate [because of ?] her son Ms¹rd

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: ThNSSMAS: as ThNSM.II. ThNSM.II 7.2: "----ḍmn" for "ʿṯmn". SAMAS 12: As ThNSM.II.
Commentary: This inscription and the others on this rock should be read as Hismaic. The first letter of the second name is damaged but it seems most likely it should be restored as an ʿ. The second letter of the name is a grid and it seems likely it should be read as a Hismaic ṯ. The letter following mny is almost certainly a Hismaic ġ the two projecting lines of which have been joined by the top of the enormous d at the end of the text. The final word is clearly ms¹rd but since this does not seem to have any meaning appropriate to the context, it is possible that it is a name, though it is unattested. This is not at all satisfactory.

Associated Inscriptions

Al-Ḏīyīb [Al-Theeb], S.A. Nuqūš ṣafawīyah min šamālī ʾl-mamlakat al-ʿarabīyat al-saʿūdīyah. Al-Jawf: Muʾasasah ʿAbd al-raḥmān al-Sudairī al-ḫairīyah, 2003.