JSLih 008

Siglum
JSLih 008
Alternative Sigla
D 155, Scagliarini 1994: 146–148, Al-Qudrah 1993: 61–62, no. 218, CLL 060, Winnett 1937: 13
Transliteration
ʿbdmnt / ʾṣd{q} /
f rḍ -h / h lh / w s¹ʿd -h
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Translation
By / son of ʿbdmnt {ʾṣdq}
and so O Lh favour him and help him
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TRANSLATION Line 1. Winnett followed by Al-Qudrah: ʾṣdq 'the trustworthy'. Line 2. Jaussen & Savignac: 'may god give him prosperity and happiness'; Winnett: 'grant him long life, O god, and good fortune!; Caskel: 'two life-spans for him,O God!, and fortune!'; Scagliarini: 'so may (he) satisfiy him, the god, and may (he) favoure'; s¹ʿd -h, Farès-Drappeau: '(he) guided him'. DISCUSSION Macdonald 2004: 516 §4.2.5; 519 §4.3.4.

Editio Princeps
Jaussen et Savignac 1909: 265-266

Technique
Copy only
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

  • Al-Qudrah, Ḥ.M. Dirāsah muʿǧamiyyah li-ʾlfāẓ al-nuqūš al-liḥyāniyyah fī iṭār al-luġāt al-sāmiyyah al-ǧanūbiyyah. Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.
  • [CLL] Caskel, W. Lihyan und Lihyanisch. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Geisteswissenschaften, 4). Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1954. pp 103
  • [D] Farès-Drappeau, S. Dédan et Liḥyān. Histoire des Arabes aux confins des pouvoirs perse et hellénistique (IVe–IIe s. avant l'ère chrétienne). (Travaux de la maison de l'Orient, 42). Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée — Jean Pouilloux, 2005. pp 223
  • [JSTham] Jaussen, A. & Savignac, M.R. Mission archéologique en Arabie. I. (Mars-Mai 1907) De Jérusalem au Hedjaz, Médain Saleh. II. El-ʿEla, d'Hégra à Teima Harrah de Tebouk. Texte et Atlas. III. Les châteaux arabes de Quṣeir ʿAmra, Ḫarâneh, et Tûba. (5 volumes). (Publications de la Société Française des Fouilles Archéologiques, 2). [Reprinted Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1997]. Paris: Leroux/Geuthner, 1909–1920. Vol. I pp 265–266 Plate XXX
  • Macdonald, M.C.A. Ancient North Arabian. Pages 488-533 in R.D. Woodard (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  • [NAU] Scagliarini, F. Le iscrizioni liḥyānitiche dell'Oasi di al-ʿUlā. Dottorato di ricerca in semitistica: linguistica semitica, Universita' degli studi di Firenze, anni accademici 1992-1994 . [unpublished thesis]. 1994. pp 146–148
  • [WTay] Winnett, F.V. A Study of the Liḥyanite and Thamudic Inscriptions. (University of Toronto Studies - Oriental Series, 3). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1937.
Site
Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Date Found
1909–1910
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0033691
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