JSLih 055

Siglum
JSLih 055
Alternative Sigla
D 014, Scagliarini 1994: 232–237, no. 20, Al-Qudrah 1993: 43, no. 119, CLL 084, Grimme 1937: 299, Hub 393, 1, Müller, D.H. 1889: 58–59, no. 1, Doughty 1884, pl. XVI, f. 30/1, HuIR no. 92
Transliteration
----y wkl / h{ġ}s¹n / ʾfkl / h- ktby ----
----h / bn / hrmh / ʾḏh / ḥrb -hm ----
----tlh / b- mṯb / b- {ṭ}ʿn / ṣd / ḏ----
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Translation
By / son of / ---y mandatory of {Hġs¹n} priest of H- ktby----
----h son of Hrmh when [he] waged war on them ----
----tlh in Mṯb by {the departure} of Ṣd ḏ----
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Müller, D.H.: wʾl for wkl and ʾfʿh for ʾfkl; Grimme: ġs¹n rather than h- ġs¹n; Caskel: ḍkl rather than wkl. Line 2. Grimme: ----l for ----h. Line 3. Müller, D.H. followed by Jaussen & Savignac, and Grimme: b- ḍʿn for b- {ṭ}ʿn. TRANSLATION Line 1. wkl, Farès-Drappeau: 'he load'; wkl ġs¹n, Grimme: 'the energetic attendant'; ʾfkl, Caskel: 'Afkal'; h- ktby, Müller, D.H. followed by Jaussen & Savignac: 'the writer'. Line 3. Müller, D.H.: 'in the cistern Baḍʿān (?)'. Jaussen & Savignac: 'he perished in the combat of Bāḍiʿan Ṣayd of ----'; Grimme: 'he defeated a number of rebels in the attack'; Caskel: 'when he struck him with a good spear'; Al-Qudrah: 'in the place with calumniation against ----'. DISCUSSION Farès-Drappeau 1999: 205. Macdonald 2004: 520. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 130, for hktby.
Commentary
The inscription is broken away on the left and the right side. For the word ṭʿn compare AH 197/8, see commentary by Hidalgo-Chacón Díez (2009: 52) and JSLih 59/2,4.

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Technique
In relief
Direction of Script
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Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Date Found
1909–1910
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Genealogy, Religion, Warfare
Old OCIANA ID
#0034012
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