KMD 51-54

This four-column panel is hypothesized to contain a short itinerarium. The interpretation of lines columns 1-3 (from the right) is fairly certain while column four is conjectural as it is without parallels and there is some difficulty in the reading. 

hġf-h: A c-stem imperative verb from the root ġwṯ 'to help', reflecting the common confusion between ṯ and f or, alternatively, the approxmination of [θ] with the f glyph due to the Dhofari scripts reduced glyph inventory of 26. For further discussion, see Al-Jallad (2025d).

ybrḥn: A prefix conjugated verb of the common verb brḥ 'to depart', attested numerous times in the corpus. The function of the final n is not yet clear. It could be an energic ending or comparable to the -n marked prefix conjugated verbs in Sabaic.  This verb is syntactically dependent upon the object pronoun of the previous clause, forming an asyndetic relative clause.

hḥy: A C-stem imperative verb from the root ḥyw. 

yhqhn: The reading of this verb is fairly certain but it should be pointed out that the right shaft of the q is much more thinly painted than the left one. Perhaps this suggests the author's implement failed him here. If that line is secondary, then the glyph can be easily read as a y, yielding yhyhn, which resists interpretation. The original reading yhqh would reflect a C-stem verb of the root qhy. Its Arabic cognate ʾaqhā is applied specifically to food and means 'to lose one's desire for it for reasons other than sickness' (ʾaqhā ʿani ṭ-ṭaʿāmi: irtaddat šahwatu-hū ʿan-hu min ġayri maraḍin (ibn Manẓūr, 3767).

rs¹: This word perhaps derives from the root rsw 'to remain stable, firm, in one place' (Lane, 1086). The non-representation of the final root consonant suggests that it was pronounced as a vowel, rasū or rāsī. The main interpretive obstacle here is that Arabic ʾaqhā takes a complement introduced by the preposition ʿan-. Since no preposition is attested here, we should interpret rs¹ as syntactically adverbial.