Tanf VII

 

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. This stone carries an inscription transliterated as follows:

Li H̱āliṣat bin Waṣūṣ bin Sam wa Raʿī

min Aǧlaḥ bin Ṯaʿlab bin Šihāb wa tašawwaq ilā

The text is a message addressed by Aǧlaḥ, son of Ṯaʿlab, son of Šihāb, to H̱āliṣat, son of Waṣūṣ, son of Sam and Raʿī, expressing his longing. 

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).