JSLih 047

Siglum
JSLih 047
Alternative Sigla
D 008, Scagliarini 1994: 192–197, no. 13, Al-Qudrah 1993: 50, no. 150, CLL 081
Transliteration
[----]
m----nw
tlt / mʿn / mn / d----
ft / b- ʾrbʿn / w----
lmn / h- mrʾ----
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Translation
[----]
m----nw
three mʿn from d----
ft in the sanctuary and ----
lmn the lord ----
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Jaussen & Savignac: ----hml ----bl hnw for m----nw; Caskel followed by Al-Qudrah: ml qbl s¹nw rather than m----nw; Scagliarini: ---- (ml qbl h)nw for m----nw; Farès-Drappeau: (h-) ml[.]bn (h)nw rather than m----nw. Line 3. Jaussen & Savignac followed by Farès-Drappeau: ʿt for ft. Line 4. Caskel followed by Al-Qudrah: h- mrʾm rather than h- mrʾ----. TRANSLATION Line 2. tlt mʿn, Jaussen & Savignac: 'three affairs (?)'; Scagliarini: 'three mʿn'. Lines 2–4. Caskel: '(he) has received three loads (?) senna leaves from a collector squad of forty Walmān, the lord M.'. Line 3. ʾrbʿn, Jaussen & Savignac followed by Al-Qudrah and Scagliarini: 'forty'. Farès-Drappeau does not translate this inscription. DISCUSSION Déroche 1987: 310. Macdonald 2004: 522.
Commentary
The text is broken on the left side and at the top.

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.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 116
  • Déroche, F. Recherches sur l'oasis de Dedan / al-Ula. Thèse de Doctorat: Études arabo-islamiques, Paris IV, 1987. [Unpublished], 1987.
  • [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 135 Plate III
  • [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. II pp 377–379 Plate LXXX, CIV
  • 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. No. 13 pp 192–197 Plate XI
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Date Found
1909–1910
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Building, Religion, Structure
Old OCIANA ID
#0033723
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