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By Ahmad al-Jallad
This video is 6 years old, but it's a good start to have some understanding of some of the archaeological findings in Saudi Arabia:More (and let’s hashtag it this time) #airportepigraphy. A new Thamudic D text from the area of Yathrib (Medina) containing a heretofore unattested formula: “I am Tbn and may our companions be protected” - oddly Hismaic in phrasing...
`n tbn w ḥmn `śy’-n
1) predicate-subject syntax. ḥmn could possibly be a participle ... ḥamīn, from حـ مـ ي.
2) `śy’ = أشياع , common in Safaitic and Hismaic, and attested for the first time in ThamD.
3) the entire text feels very Hismaic and may suggest Contacts with the Nabataean realm. This wouldn’t be unexpected at all given that we occasionally find ThamD texts in Jordan, and that Nab inscriptions are attested @ Yathrib. Now for some doubt: ThamD isn’t fully deciphered and I wonder if E = ح is completely correct ...
One diff between my reading and that of the gentleman whose tweet I linked is the intepretation of the H glyph, which is now beyond a doubt alif rather than /z/. Other glyphs were misread in the tweetio princeps as well.
https://twitter.com/Safaitic/status/1198621041695875072
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