The attached photo is of one of eight stones carrying Ṣafāʾitic inscriptions discovered 35 kilometers southeast of at-Tanf and brought to the National Museum of Damascus in 1966. The translation of this inscription is as follows:
From Ṣur, son of Tam from the Bax tribe and (?) placed stones over the tomb of Yaslam
Material : ?
Dimensions : "small".
Era : Roman or Byzantine.
Photo credit : ʿAbd al-Wadūd Yūsuf.
Collection : National Museum of Damascus.
ʿAlī ʾabū ʿAssāf. Kitābāt ʿArabīyyā Ṣafawīyyā ǧadīdā fī al-matḥaf al'waṭanī bi Dimašq. Annales archéologiques arabes syriennes XXIII 1973 (pp. 201-214).
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