WTay 37

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Lines 1–3. van den Braden: ʿbd b{t} ḏb mṣry bws¹ rather than ----bdbwd b h mṣryt Wasm [?]; Winnett & Reed: ----ṯbdnwd bh mṣryt ---- wsm rather than ----bdbwd b h mṣryt Wasm [?]; Kootstra reads the wasm in line 2. TRANSLATION bh mṣryt, Line 2. Winnett: 'lay with an Egyptian woman'.
Commentary: The 2 lines below, which Winnett reads with this text do not continue the boustrophedon and are much more lightly scratched. Winnett reads // ---- // ws¹m. A translation of b h mṣry as 'with the Epytian woman' should not be excluded.

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 106 Plate 20, 23
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