Howard Ramm 2

Siglum
Howard Ramm 2
Transliteration
l g(ḥ)fl ʾḫ tm
OCIANA
Translation
By Gḥfl the brother of Tm
OCIANA
Language and Script
Hismaic

Interpretation

Commentary
The text is carved in thin letters which start off running left-to-right and then bend round boustrophedon running right-to-left. The third letter has the form of a Hismaic ṭ but this would produce a very peculiar name, and it seems possible that it was intended to be a ḥ, compare the ḥ in KJC 487. It is extremely unusual for an author of an Ancient North Arabian inscription to describe himself as "the brother of N". A facsimile of this inscription and Howard Ramm 2 was published in Taylor & Howard 1999: 163.

Associated Inscriptions

  • [AMJ] King, G.M.H. Early North Arabian Thamudic E. A preliminary description based on a new corpus of inscriptions from the Ḥismā desert of southern Jordan and published material. Ph.D thesis, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1990. [Unpublished]. 1990.
  • Taylor, D, & Howard, A. Jordan: Walks, Treks, Caves, Climbs, Canyons in Pella, Ajlun, Moab, Dana, Petra, Rum. Milnthorpe, Cumbria: Cicerone, 1999.
Site
Jabal Ramm, Al-‘Aqabah Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1980
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Relatives
Old OCIANA ID
#0051971
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OCIANA,. 'Howard Ramm 2.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/9976. Accessed: 20 Sep, 2025.