Jordan Journal For History and Archaeology Volume 51, No.3, 2025 - 79 - © 2021 DSR Publishers/The University of Jordan. All Rights Reserved. A Sort of Sepulchral Construction in Wadi Umm Ṭulayḥa, Southeastern Badia, Jordan? Ibrahim Saleh Sadaqah 1 , Mohammad Barakat Tarawneh 2 , Fawzi Qasem Abudanah 3 https://doi.org/10.54134/jjha.15.3.5 Abstract This paper presents a linguistic and etymological analysis of three North Arabian inscriptions carved on a relatively small stone. The stone was found east of al-Jafr in southern Jordan, near the Jordanian-Saudi border. The content of the three inscriptions in terms of writing style, topic, and vocabulary is similar to other North Arabian inscriptions. Nevertheless, the three inscriptions include new words that have not been attested before in other inscriptions of the same type. Some rock drawings were also found in the same rujm. Keywords: Wadi Umm Ṭulayḥa, Ḥismaic inscriptions, Ancient North Arabia, funeral culture. Description of the Stone: The inscriptions published in this article were found in Rujm Umm Ṭulayḥa. The site lies in Wadi Umm Ṭulayḥa, which runs west-east through the Jordanian-Saudi border to the south of the Mushash Hudruj police station. The inscriptions were in situ, carved on a sandstone rock that was found alongside Rujm Umm Tulayha (part of Wadi Umm Tulayha) by the eastern Bayir archaeological survey team after the Bedouin told them about the location of this rock. Since 2011, the project has been part of a collaboration combining two former archaeological research projects (1. Al Thulaythuwat Archaeological Survey and Excavation Project, and 2. Eastern Bayir Archaeological Project) into one joint research program on the settlement of the desert areas of southeastern Jordan during the protohistoric periods (Tarawneh et. al. 2017). 1 Corresponding author: email, ibrahim.sadaqah@gmail.com, (I. Sadaqah). Orcid number: https://orcid.org/0000-0002- 2683-5079, Independent Researcher, Jordan. 2 Second author: email, mohnaram_tara@yahoo.com, (M. Tarawneh). Orcid number: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1217- 6092, Petra College of Tourism and Archaeology, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Jordan. 3 Third author: email, fawziabudanh@yahoo.co.uk, (F. Abudanah). Orcid number: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2556- 3115, Petra College of Tourism and Archaeology, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Jordan. Received on 31/7/2021 and accepted for publication on 9/9/2021.