The Ḥimà Paleo-Arabic inscriptions are a group of twenty-five inscriptions discovered at Hima, 90 km north of Najran, in southern Saudi Arabia, written in the Paleo-Arabic script.
[5][6] The calendar used by which dates are referred to was the Bostran era, which begins at the equivalent of 106 AD in the Gregorian calendar in accordance with the date of the establishment of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea.
[7] In addition, the use of the same script for the first time in both southern Arabia, northern Arabia, and Arabic-speaking regions of southern Syria alongside the declining use of Aramaic attests to a significant trend of cultural unification across the Arabs in the fifth and sixth centuries.
The prepositions Ḥimà-Sud, Ḥimà-Idhbāḥ, and Ḥimà-al-Musammāt specify the subregion in Hima that the inscriptions were found.
ṯw Thawbān fils de MālikTransliteration 1 Ṯwbn br Mlkw ktb 2 ᾿ly᾿ br Mr᾿lqys ktb Translation 1 Thawbān fils de Mālik a écrit
2 Élie fils de Mar᾿ al-Qays a écritTransliteration Ṯwbn bn Mlkw Translation
Mundhir fils d’al-Ḥāri[th]Transliteration Ṯwbn br Mlkw Translation
Thawbān fils de MālikTransliteration Qysw br Mlkw Translation
Qays fils de MālikTransliteration Ḥrmlh br Ḥnẓlh Translation
Mu῾āwiya fils d’al-ḤārithAccording to the publication, an assured reading of this inscription is presently not possible.Transliteration 1 [..](s)w br Hdšw 2 5+1+1+1 3 …](᾿)l-m᾿tmr snt 4x100 Translation 1 (Qays ?)