JSTham 403

Siglum
JSTham 403
Alternative Sigla
Kootstra 2016: 90–91
Transliteration
mrs¹lṣ ḥlt
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Translation
Mrs¹lṣ Ḥlt
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Kootstra: mr(ʾ)l{ṣ} rather than mrs¹lṣ. TRANSLATION Jaussen & Savignac: 'Maris to Ṣaḥalat'; ḥlt, Kootstra: 'I was a soldier'.
Commentary
Van den Branden (1950: 267) regarded JSTham 401–403 as "liḥyanite" (i.e. Dadanitic), and the form of the ḥ in line 2 would seem to confirm this. The bizarre form of the letter at the end of line 1 suggest that it has been miscopied.

  • [JSTham] Jaussen, A. & Savignac, M.R. Mission archéologique en Arabie. I. (Mars-Mai 1907) De Jérusalem au Hedjaz, Médain Saleh. II. El-ʿEla, d'Hégra à Teima Harrah de Tebouk. Texte et Atlas. III. Les châteaux arabes de Quṣeir ʿAmra, Ḫarâneh, et Tûba. (5 volumes). (Publications de la Société Française des Fouilles Archéologiques, 2). [Reprinted Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1997]. Paris: Leroux/Geuthner, 1909–1920. Vol. II pp 583 Plate CXLV
  • Kootstra, F. The Language of the Taymanitic Inscriptions and its Classification. Arabian Epigraphic Notes 2, 2016: 67–140
  • [HU] The inscriptions recorded by Charles Huber as renumbered in Van den Branden, A. Les inscriptions thamoudéennes. (Bibliothèque du Muséon, 25). Louvain: Institut Orientaliste de l'Université de Louvain, 1950. pp 267
Site
Al-Ḫabū al-Šarqī, south-east of Taymāʾ, Tabūk Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Name only
Old OCIANA ID
#0040552
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