Taymāʾ III. Catalogue of the Inscriptions in the Taymāʾ Museum and Other Collections

Michael C. A. Macdonald; Muḥammad al-Najem; Abdullah A. Alzahrani; Arnulf Hausleiter; Ricardo Eichmann; Peter Stein; Frédéric Imbert; Jérôme Norris; Hanspeter Schaudig

doi:10.34780/mxa8mr52

Taymāʾ III. Catalogue of the Inscriptions in the Taymāʾ Museum and Other Collections

https://doi.org/10.34780/mxa8mr52

Authors

List of Contributors

Michael C. A. Macdonald [Volume editor]
Muḥammad al-Najem [Volume editor]
Dr Abdullah A. Alzahrani [Chapter Author]
Arnulf Hausleiter [Chapter Author] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7119-6766
Ricardo Eichmann [Chapter Author]
Peter Stein [Chapter Author]
Frédéric Imbert [Chapter Author] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7341-8246
Jérôme Norris [Chapter Author] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8556-7588
Hanspeter Schaudig [Chapter Author]

Synopsis

Taymāʾ III presents a catalogue of the inscriptions which were kept in the Taymāʾ Museum until 2017 as well as all known inscriptions from Taymāʾ in other collections, such as the National Museum in Riyāḏ and the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The catalogue contains 102 inscriptions from the Taymāʾ Museum in various languages and scripts, as well as 29 other inscriptions.

Michael C. A. Macdonald has not only edited the volume, but also the inscriptions in Imperial Aramaic, Taymāʾ Aramaic, Nabataean, and the Taymanitic language and script. With Peter Stein’s updated reading of the Taymāʾ stone and Jérôme Norris’ new edition of the Qaṣr al-Ḥamrā stele, the two most important monuments for the religious history of Taymāʾ in the mid-1^st millennium BC are also included in this volume. Frédéric Imbert has edited the Arabic inscriptions from the Taymāʾ Museum.

The indices contain the words and names of all known texts from the Taymāʾ oasis, i.e. those discovered during the Saudi-German excavations between 2004 and 2015 (published in Taymāʾ II, including the cuneiform inscriptions of King Nabonidus of Babylon) and those edited in this volume.

With these two volumes of the Taymāʾ excavation series, all currently accessible inscriptions that originate from this major north-west Arabian oasis, or very likely from there, are published in printed and digital (open access) form.

Keywords:

Tayma, Taima, Taimah, Taymah, Teima, Tejma, تيماء

Chapters

Foreword

Dr Abdullah A. Alzahrani
Preface

Arnulf Hausleiter, Ricardo Eichmann
Acknowledgements

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
Introduction

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
The Layout of the Catalogue

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
THE CATALOGUE
Part 1: Inscriptions from Taymāʾ in the Taymāʾ Museum
The Imperial Aramaic Inscriptions (TM.IA.)

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
The Taymāʾ Aramaic Inscriptions (TM.TAr.)

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
The Nabataean Inscriptions (TM.N.)

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
The Taymanitic Inscriptions (TM.T.)

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
The Minaic Inscription (TM.M.)

Peter Stein
The Arabic Inscriptions (TM.A.)

Frédéric Imbert
A Query (TM.Q.)

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
Part 2: Inscriptions from Taymāʾ in Other Collections
1. Inscriptions from Taymāʾ in the National Museum, Riyāḍ
Imperial Aramaic

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
The ‘Qaṣr al-Ḥamrāʾ Stele’ (Riyāḍ Museum 1020 A)

Jérôme Norris
Other Imperial Aramaic Inscriptions

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
Taymanitic

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
A Fake ‘South Semitic’ Inscription (Riyāḍ Museum 1-1-86)

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
Riyāḍ Museum Register Number Unknown (RMru)
Imperial Aramaic (RMru.001 – RMru.002)

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
Nabataean (RMru.003)

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
Taymanitic (RMru.004 – RMru.006)

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
2. Inscriptions from Taymāʾ in the Musée du Louvre, Paris
Imperial Aramaic Inscriptions

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
The ‘Taymāʾ Stele’ AO 1505

Peter Stein
Other Imperial Aramaic Inscriptions

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
Taymāʾ Aramaic Inscription

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Taymanitic

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
3. Inscriptions from Taymāʾ the Present Location of which is Unknown
Imperial Aramaic (U.IA)

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
Nabataean (U.N.)

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
Taymanitic (U.T.)

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
APPENDIX
Gravestones of Men and Women at Taymāʾ

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
INDEXES OF WORDS AND NAMES IN THE INSCRIPTIONS IN THIS CATALOGUE AND THE CATALOGUE OF INSCRIPTIONS DISCOVERED IN THE SAUDI-GERMAN EXCAVATIONS AT TAYMĀʾ 2004–2015 (TAYMĀʾ II)
Indexes of Words and Names in the Akkadian Inscriptions

Hanspeter Schaudig
Indexes of Words and Names in the Imperial Aramaic, Taymāʾ Aramaic, and Nabataean Inscriptions

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
Indexes of Words and Names in the Dadanitic and Taymanitic Inscriptions

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
Indexes of Words and Names in the Minaic Inscription Peter Stein

Peter Stein
Indexes of Words and Names in the Arabic Inscriptions

Frédéric Imbert
LISTS OF THE INSCRIPTIONS
Concordance of Taymāʾ Museum Register Numbers with the Numbers in this Catalogue

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
List of the Inscriptions from the Oasis of Taymāʾ by Script

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
List of the Inscriptions from the Oasis of Taymāʾ by Subject

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
List of the Dated Inscriptions from the Oasis of Taymāʾ

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem
SIGLA
REFERENCES
ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA TO TAYMĀʾ II

Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muḥammad al-Najem