Tayma stones
Not to be confused with Timna Valley stones with proto-Sinaitic inscriptions.
The Tayma stones, also Teima or Tema stones, are a collection of more than 130 Achaemenid-era Aramaic inscriptions found in Tayma, in northwestern Saudi Arabia. The most famous one from the collection, and the largest, is called the Tayma Stele (KAI 228–230). The second largest is the Salm Stele (CIS II 113–115).
The first four inscriptions were found in 1878 and published in 1884, and included in the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum II as numbers 113–116. In 1972, ten further inscriptions were published. In 1987 seven further inscriptions were published. Many of the inscriptions date to approximately the 5th and 6th centuries BCE.
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