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

Contents

Foreword – Abdullah A. Alzahrani

Preface – Arnulf Hausleiter, Ricardo Eichmann

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The Layout of the Catalogue

The Catalogue

Part 1: Inscriptions from Taymāʾ in the Taymāʾ Museum

The Imperial Aramaic Inscriptions (TM.IA.)

The Taymāʾ Aramaic Inscriptions (TM.TAr.)

The Nabataean Inscriptions (TM.N.)

The Taymanitic Inscriptions (TM.T.)

The Minaic Inscription (TM.M.) – Peter Stein

The Arabic Inscriptions (TM.A.) – Frédéric Imbert

A Query (TM.Q.)

Part 2: Inscriptions from Taymāʾ in Other Collections

1. Inscriptions from Taymāʾ in the National Museum, Riyāḍ Imperial Aramaic

2. Inscriptions from Taymāʾ in the Musée du Louvre, Paris Imperial Aramaic Inscriptions

3. Inscriptions from Taymāʾ the Present Location of which is Unknown

Appendix

Gravestones of Men and Women at Taymāʾ

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)

Lists of the Inscriptions

Sigla

References

Addenda et Corrigenda to Taymāʾ II

About the Author

Michael C. A. Macdonald is an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and Fellow of the British Academy. He works on the languages, scripts and ancient history of Arabia and directs the Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia (http://krc.orient.ox.ac.uk/ociana/). He has been working at Taymāʾ since 2010.

Muhammad H. al-Najem headed for many years the Taymāʾ Antiquities Office of the Heritage Commission and its predecessors, which included the Taymāʾ Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography. He was the local cooperation partner of the Saudi-German joint archaeological project in Taymāʾ and has published on the archaeology and heritage of the oasis.