Siglum: KRS 30  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l ʾbn bn ʿnhlh h- dmy w ḫrṣ f h ṣlm ʾlh dmt rw<<>>ḥ

Translation
By ʾbn son of ʿnlh the Dumaite and he was cold and hungry and so O Ṣlm god of Dūmat {[grant] relief from adversity}

Commentary
There is a m after the second w and the ḥ at the end is written to the side of the other letters. It seems likely that the m was a mistake and that the author finished the text in a different direction rather than crossing it out. There is no drawing with the inscription and it seems that h- dmy here represents the nisbah from Dūmat (Akkadian Adumatu, mediaeval Arabic and still today Dumat al-Jandal, al-Jawf) the oasis in north Arabia.

This is the only Safaitic inscription known so far in which there is an invocation to the god Ṣlm, who is here called ‘the god of Dūmat’, but who is better known from the mid-sixth century BC to at least the mid first century AD as the chief god of Taymāʾ (see the dedication to Ṣlm in Taymāʾ Aramaic dated to AD 56/57 in Macdonald in preparation).

As yet, neither of the personal names has been found in the inscriptions in and around Taymāʾ or Al-Jawf. However, ʿnlh (as opposed to ʿnhlh here) is found in a Hismaic text from Qārat al-Mazād, north of Sakākā (Al-Ḏīyīb 2003: no. 36).

Subjects
Genealogy

Country: Jordan
Region: Al-Mafraq Province
Site: Wādī Salma
Map reference: Sheet 3455 II 473974
Latitude: 32.442588
Longitude: 37.288279
Present Location: In situ
Find date: 1989
Field collector: Geraldine King
Survey: Basalt Desert Rescue Survey (BDRS)
Notes: Wadi Salma
Associated Signs: Oval shape with three lines across

References:
Al-Ḏīyīb [Al-Theeb], S.A. Nuqūš ṯamūdīyah ǧadīdah min al-ǧawf — al-mamlakat al-ʿarabīyat al-saʿūdīyah. Al-Riyāḍ: Maktabat al-malik fahd al-waṭaniyah, 2003.. Nuqūš ṯamūdīyah ǧadīdah min al-ǧawf — al-mamlakat al-ʿarabīyat al-saʿūdīyah. Al-Riyāḍ: Maktabat al-malik fahd al-waṭaniyah, 2003. Number: 36

[KRS] Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here

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