Thamūdene alphabet

…“Thamūdic” graffiti are named after Thamūd, one of several Arabian tribes named in the Assyrian annals. Thamūdaeans are named about 169 ce in a Greek inscription on a Nabataean temple in the northeastern Hejaz, and in a 5th-century Byzantine source, as members of a cameleer corps on the northeastern Egyptian…