WTay 02

Siglum: WTay 02
Alternative Sigla: Kootstra 2016: 118, Ph 266.x
Transliteration: lm / hbʾl b ʿgl / mn s¹mʿ l- ṣlm l tw[y]
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Translation: By Hbʾl son of ʿgl whoever listens to Ṣlm {will not perish}
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Language and Script: Taymanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT van den Branden: nms² b{w} ʾl bʿgl mns¹ʿ rather than lm hbʾl b ʿgl mn s¹mʿ. TRANSLATION mn s¹mʿl ṣlm ltw, Winnett & Reed: 'From Ṣalm has turned away'; l tw[y], Winnett: 'let him bow down'. The reading here is that of Kootstra 2016: 118. DISCUSSION Winnett 1980: 134-135, on mn s¹mʿ l- ṣlm ltwy.
Commentary: Noyte that the last four letters of this text were read by both van den Branden and Winnett both as part of this text and as WTay 44.

Kootstra, F. The Language of the Taymanitic Inscriptions and its Classification. Arabian Epigraphic Notes 2, 2016: 67–140
[Ph] Van den Branden, A. Les textes thamoudéens de Philby. (2 volumes). (Bibliothèque du Muséon, 39 and 41). Louvain: Institut orientaliste, 1956.
Winnett, F.V. A Reconsideration of Some Inscriptions from the Tayma Area. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 10, 1980: 133-140.
[W.Dad] Winnett, F.V. & Reed, W.L. Ancient Records from North Arabia. with contributions by J.T. Milik and J. Starcky. (Near and Middle East Series, 6). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970. pp 96 Plate 18

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