JInTham 4

The orientation of this inscription is irregular. It is carved in a column next to the camel but the orientation of the b suggests that it should be read from right ot left or left to right. If that is the case, it would produce bʿr or rʿb or perhaps bʿn or nʿb. The editio princeps reads nʿb as an adjective referring to a spritely camel. If the | glyph should be read instead as an r as in Thamudic D, then we would have the generic word for camel, baʿīr. If the reading rʿb is preferred, then we are probably dealing with the signature of the author. A secure interpretation cannot be supplied until further examples of this script type from this region are documented.