UdhTham 3
Text Information
- Siglum
- UdhTham 3
- Alternative Sigla
- UdhThamD 1, JSTham 213
- Transliteration
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rbt s²q b- -y ʾ{l}- kn ʾmt s²krn
Al-Jallad (2025b)
- Translation
-
There is much longing in me for Kn the slave girl of S²krn
Al-Jallad (2025b)
- Language and Script
- Thamudic D
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
Macdonald (2018) rbt s²qby ʾ{l} kn ʾmt s²krn trans.(a) ‘S²qby, the handmaid of S²krn, ruled the ʾl Kn’, (b) ‘S²qby, of the family of Kn, trained the handmaid of S²krn’
- Commentary
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See Al-Jallad 2025b for a commentary. The Thamudic D formula rb(t) 'much' + emotion finds a parallel in Hismaic.
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), Women
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Updated
21 Nov, 2025
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Ahmad Al-Jallad
Cite this Site
Ahmad Al-Jallad, 'UdhTham 3,' ed. A. Al-Jallad and M.C.A. Macdonald, OCIANA, 21 Nov, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/45891. Accessed: 05 Mar, 2026.