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W.F. Albright (translator), “Palestinian Inscriptions,” in Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts, p. 320. The use of “his month” to refer to the month when one works at a specific occupation is idiomatic in Hebrew. As an example: “Those officials supplied provisions for King Solomon and for all who came to King Solomon’s table, each one in his month h
The graffito was discovered in the late 1980s by G.M.H. King, and will be published in her forthcoming collection of more than 2,000 Safaitic inscriptions. It was mentioned briefly by M.C.A. Macdonald, “Herodian Echoes in the Syrian Desert,” in S. Bourke and J.-P. Descoeudres (eds.), Trade, Contact and the Movement of Peoples in the Eastern Mediterranean: Studies in Honour of J.B. Hennessy (Sydney: Meditarch, 1995), p. 286. I thank both for sending me information at an early stage.
Walter Loebl has been invited to contribute a full diagnosis in a Herodian volume I am editing—one of two volumes of papers read in the international conference The World of the Herods and the Nabataeans (held at the British Museum in April 2001). I am grateful for the permission to use his statements here.
