UdhTham 2
Text Information
- Siglum
- UdhTham 2
- Alternative Sigla
- UdhThamC? 1, JSTham 216
- Transliteration
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s¹{y}t bb{y}
wd drAhmad Al-Jallad - Translation
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The memorial of Bby
love from DrAhmad Al-Jallad - Language and Script
- Thamudic D
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
Macdonald 2018: s¹{y}t {ḍ/b}{b}{m} wdd-n, trans.'----loves me’.
- Commentary
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Macdonald (2018) took the second column as wdd-n, but the script is clearly Thamudic D and so the final glyph cannot be understood as an n.
s¹{y}t: This is possibly a variant of the term s¹t, which is well attested in Thamudic D. Al-Jallad (2025b) hypothesized that it refers to a memorial inscription.
bby: This is an unattested name, but bb is found in Safaitic.
wd dr: This is perhaps the signature of the author introduced by the verb or nominal form wd. Dr is a well-attested name in ANA.
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Editio Princeps
- Macdonald 2018
- Field Collector
- L. Nehmé
- Technique
- Carved
- Direction of Script
- Vertical columns right to left
- Associated Inscriptions
- Al-Jallad, A. Towards the decipherment of Thamudic D: an identification of new phoneme-glyph values and letter shapes. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 2025b: 1–29
- [JSTham] [Thamudic inscriptions published in Jaussen and Savignac 1909-22 (JS)].
- [UdhDad] Macdonald, M.C.A. The Ancient North and South Arabian inscriptions on the Darb al-Bakra. in L. Nehmé (ed.), The Darb al-Bakrah, a caravan route in north-west Arabia. Catalogue of the inscriptions. Riyadh, Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage, 2018a.
- Site
- Al-ʿUdhayb, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Date Found
- 2004
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- greetings or love (wdd), Memorial
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Updated
21 Nov, 2025
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Ahmad Al-Jallad
Cite this Site
Ahmad Al-Jallad, 'UdhTham 2,' ed. A. Al-Jallad and M.C.A. Macdonald, OCIANA, 21 Nov, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/45890. Accessed: 05 Mar, 2026.