WTay 20
Text Information
- Siglum
- WTay 20
- Alternative Sigla
- Ph 266.a (1); Kootstra 2016: 73, 114
- Transliteration
- bhs²rkt nṣr b- ḍr ddn yr{ḫ} l- ṣlm
- Translation
- Bhs²rkt kept watch in the war of Ddn, {a month} for Ṣlm
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TEXT van den Branden: yrhl hlws¹ bn s²rkt nṣr b- ḍr ddn rather than bhs²rkt nṣr b- ḍr ddn yr{ḫ} l- ṣlm; Winnett: yrh for yr{ḫ}. DISCUSSION Winnett 1980: 133–134, on nṣr l- ṣlm.
- Commentary
- Within a cartouche with the last two letters outside it, suggesting that the cartouche may have been drawn before the inscription was finished. The text is carved boustrophedon starting from right-to-left in the lower line and then curve into the upper line.
- 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 102–103 Plate 19, 22
- Winnett, F.V. A Reconsideration of Some Inscriptions from the Tayma Area. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 10, 1980: 133-140.
- Van den Branden, A. Les textes thamoudéens de Philby. (2 volumes). (Bibliothèque du Muséon, 39 and 41). Louvain: Institut orientaliste, 1956.
- Kootstra, F. The Language of the Taymanitic Inscriptions and its Classification. Arabian Epigraphic Notes 2, 2016: 67–140
- Site
- Ǧabal Ġunaym, near to Taymāʾ, Tabūk Province, Saudi Arabia
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Date (other), Deity, Genealogy, Place-name, Religion, Time, Warfare, Watch (keeping)
- Script
- Taymanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0040351
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