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 transliteration of this inscription is as follows:
Face 1: Li Saʿdā wa šakā qatlahu.
Face 2: Bin šāb faġrah.
The depth of the inscribed letters varies between the two faces, indicating the use of different tools. It's quite possible that the two inscriptions were made at different times; in other words, the stone served as a palimpsest. The text as a whole is therefore unintelligible.
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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