... could have saved myself ~30 years, IF I had listened to that old man...
EARLY NORTH ARABIAN HISMAIC A preliminary description based on a new corpus of inscriptions from the Ḥismā desert of southern Jordan
Geraldine Margaret Harmsworth King Submitted for the degree of Ph.D. School of Oriental and African Studies 1990 => Pgs. 719 - 784 (638-703 PDF) http://krc.orient.ox.ac.uk/resources/ociana/documents/king_hismaic.pdf
Hismaic script is named after Hisma Desert, where it was mainly used, along with the surrounding areas up to central Jordan. It was discovered 1937 by Fred V. Winnett who named it Thamudic E (Winnett divided his known inscriptions at the time into five rough categories A, B, C, D, E...) Later, Thamudic was renamed to "Hismaic" by Geraldine M.H. King. Hismaic is most commonly used to write Safaitic dialects
NOTE: A prefixed definite article is not yet been found in Hismaic. Nevertheless, Hismaic seems to attest a suffixed -ʾ on nouns and hn in personal names. The use of the morpheme -h as a demonstrative is attested.
Antiona - h, chief ruler in Ammoniha - h
Cumeniha - h, Lama - h & Limha - h, who died at Cumora - h
Giddona - h & Gidgiddona - h
Mathoniha - h
Nephiha - h
Zemnariha - h
Jaredites
Aha - h, Nimra - h, Gilga - h, Amnigadda - h, Maha - h, Nimra - h, Oriha - h,
Maybe
Note: in Dadanitic, there is the anaphoric use of the 3rd person pronoun, hʾ => For example, in the sentence "Sally arrived, but nobody saw her", the pronoun her is an anaphor, referring back to the antecedent Sally. However, in the sentence "Before her arrival, nobody saw Sally", the pronoun her refers forward to the postcedent Sally
M, Hismaic - AZ?
NOTE: NONE of these images show the SAME inscription...
The French edition of Henry Wheaton’s 1831 book, History of the Northmen: Or Danes and Normans, from the Earliest Times to the Conquest of England by William of Normandy. => NOTE THAT THIS DRAWING IS NOT ACCURATE - the Hismaic characters have been removed...
Daguerrotype of Seth Eastman (c. 1853)
Dighton Rock in the Taunton River, Massachusetts - Sometime before 1680, someone left a 40-ton note in what is now Berkley, Massachusetts.
https://newengland.com/travel/massachusetts/the-mystery-of-dighton-rock/
photo was taken in 1893
Possible Phoenician...