Sigla: WTay 20; Ph 266.a (1); Kootstra 2016: 73, 114  Script: Taymanitic

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Transliteration
1: bhs²rkt nṣr b- ḍr ddn yr{ḫ} l- ṣlm

Translation
1: Bhs²rkt kept watch in the war of Ddn, {a month} for Ṣlm

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.

Subjects
Genealogy Place-name Religion Time Warfare Deity Watch (keeping) Date (other)

Country: Saudi Arabia
Region: Tabūk
Site: Ǧabal Ghunaym, near to Taymāʾ
Site number: 19
Map reference: 27.5032 N 38.58391667 E (DD based on Ṭāriq 2013)
Latitude: 27.5032
Longitude: 38.58392
Present Location: In situ

References:
Kootstra, F. The Language of the Taymanitic Inscriptions and its Classification. Arabian Epigraphic Notes 2, 2016: 67–140 Pages: 73, 114

[Ph] Van den Branden, A. Les textes thamoudéens de Philby. (2 volumes). (Bibliothèque du Muséon, 39 and 41). Louvain: Institut orientaliste, 1956. Volume: 2 Pages: 19–20(?) Plates: V

[WTay] 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. Pages: 102–103 Plates: 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. Pages: 133–134

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