TMES 15
Text Information
- Siglum
- TMES 15
- Transliteration
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{ʾ}s¹d
bn w---
bn ʿy
bn mtʿ
ḏ {b}{y}nAhmad Al-Jallad - Translation
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{ʾs¹d} son of {W----} son of ʿy son of Mtʿ of (the line of) {Byn}
Ahmad Al-Jallad - Language and Script
- Thamudic D
Interpretation
- Commentary
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ʾs¹d: A common Arabic name, ʾasad, 'lion.'
ʿy: A common name in Safaitic, attested some 24 times. It is likely derived from the root ʿwy (cf. muʿāwiyah), yeilding ʿayy (<*ʿawy-).
mtʿ: A common Arabian name, 'pleasure', also found as a component of theophoric names, e.g. mtʿʾl.
ḏ byn: The absence of the word bn before this word suggests that it is a tribal name introduced by the ḏ relative pronoun without a term for 'tribe' or 'family'. As such byn would be a tribal name. Byn, likely bayān, is attested some ten times as an athroponym in Safaitic. Other Thamudic D inscriptions from further north attest the common north Arabian construction ḏ ʾl (Al-Jallad 2025b).
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Field Collector
- Ahmad Al-Jallad and Hythem Sidky
- Technique
- Carved
- Direction of Script
- Vertical columns
- 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
- [TMES] Thamudic inscriptions documented on the Ṭāʾif-Mecca Epigraphic Survey 2021-2022
- Site
- Saysad, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Date Found
- 2021
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Genealogy, Lineage
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Updated
14 Mar, 2026
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Ahmad Al-Jallad
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Ahmad Al-Jallad, 'TMES 15,' ed. A. Al-Jallad and M.C.A. Macdonald, OCIANA, 14 Mar, 2026. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/46031. Accessed: 09 Apr, 2026.