ZSH 1

Alzoubi et al. 2023: trans. "he halted galloping (horse), and he grieved for his companions of beloveds in the Euphrates" for w gls¹ mn- rmḥ w ndm ʿl- ʾs²yʿ -h mḥbbn b- frt 

The tribe Ṭs¹m is known from later Arabic lore as one of the lost Arab tribes, ʿarab bāʾidah. The first historical witnesses to its existence occur in the Safaitic corpus, and long with ʿād and Thamūd, suggest that the horizon of Arab historical memory stretches to North Arabia around the turn of the Christian era (Al-Jallad 2025a, n. 14). While the wording of the inscription is not entirely precise, it is possible that the reference to b- frt 'at the Euphrates' suggests that Ṭs¹m's territory was west of the Euphrates, perhaps in the region of Beth Arbaya.

The expression gls¹ mn rmḥ is open to several interpretations. The preposition mn- could introduce the purpose of the author's halting or point of origin. In the former case, one can perhaps understand it in an astronomical sense, connecting it to Classical Arabic ar-rumḥ (Lane, 1153c). If we take the latter sense, the rmḥ could be understood faux de mieux as a toponym.