JSLih 059

Siglum
JSLih 059
Alternative Sigla
D 018, Scagliarini 1994: 248–254, no. 24, Al-Qudrah 1993: 50–51, no. 152, CLL 090, Grimme 1937: 310
Transliteration
----ʾrbʿw / ʿbd----
ḫld / b- ṭʿn / ms²hr / ʾd----
f bnt / ʿl -h / mk / bnt / ----
rmh / ṭnr mlṭ / f m----
----hry / l- tmr----
mḫh -h / rm---- / mmrt----
s²----yry
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Translation
By / son of ʿl ---- the sanctuary ʿbd ----
Ḫld in ṭʿn/ms²hr/ʾd----
f built for her/him Mk daughter of ----
rmh ṭnr mlṭ f m----
----hry/l- tmr----
mḫh -h/rm----/mmrt----
s²----yry
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Grimme: [ḫls¹ bny] at the beginning of this line. Line 2. Jaussen & Savignac followed by Grimme: ḍʿn for ṭʿn; Caskel: ms²hwr for ms²hr; Al-Qudrah: ʾḏ rather than ʾd; Jaussen & Savignac followed by Caskel, Al-Qudrah and Scagliarini: s¹ at the end of this line. Line 3. Jaussen & Savignac: ḏ at the end of this line. Line 4. Jaussen & Savignac: ḍnrmmḍ for ṭnr mlṭ; Grimme: ḍ rm[m]ḍ for ṭnr mlṭ; Caskel followed by Al-Qudrah: mfṭ rather than mlṭ; Jaussen & Savignac: mm---- rather than f m----; Scagliarini: lm ---- for f m----; Farès-Drappeau: ----mh ṭ----rf----ṭ ----m---- for rmh ṭnr mlṭ mf m----. Line 5. Jaussen & Savignac: ẓhry for ----hry and mṯmr for l- tmr; Grimme: mṯbr for l- tmr; Caskel followed by Al-Qudrah: qhry mlrmr for ----hry l- tmr; Scagliarini: m(?)hr for l- tmr. Farès-Drappeau: mṭmr for l- tmr. Line 6. Grimme: mkk for mḫh; Jaussen & Savignac: rmṯ rather than rm----; Caskel followed by Al-Qudrah: rmrm for rm----; Farès-Drappeau: ṭ rather than rm----. Line 7. Jaussen & Savignac do not read this line; Grimme: l----ġyry for s²----yry; Caskel: ḏyry for ----yry; Al-Qudrah: ḏyr for ----yry; Scagliarini: ṭ(?) for s². TRANSLATION Line 1. ʾrbʿw ʿbd, Jaussen & Savignac followed by Caskel and Al-Qudrah: 'forty slaves'. Lines 1–2. Scagliarini: 'and made the temple buildings ----- has live Bṭʿn ----'. Line 2. ms²hr, Jaussen & Savignac: 'the illustrious'; ṭʿn ms²hr, Caskel followed by Al-Qudrah: 'with a powerful thrust'. Line 3. Jaussen & Savignac: 'and the daughters for the destruction, the daughters of----'; Caskel followed by Al-Qudrah: 'as established above him Makk, the daughter of ----'. Lines 3–7. Scagliarini only translates Ṭnrmlṭ (line 4) as personal name. DISCUSSION Ullendorff 1955: 431–432. Farès-Drappeau 1999: 205. Macdonald 2004: 520. Macdonald (in press): 8–9.
Commentary
The inscription is broken on the left side. In addition, several letters cannot be read clearly. It is difficult to translate. Line 2. The personal name is found in Safaitic (Harding 1971: 548). The inscription is erroneously registered under no. 53 in Jaussen & Savignac (1909-1920, ii, pl. LXXXII). Line 5. The glyph of the first letter of this line does not belong to the Dadanitic script.

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Technique
In relief
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

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  • [CLL] Caskel, W. Lihyan und Lihyanisch. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Geisteswissenschaften, 4). Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1954. pp 122–123
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  • Macdonald, M.C.A. Towards a reassessment of the Ancient North Arabian alphabets used in the oasis of al-ʿUlā. Pages 1–19 in M.C.A. Macdonald (ed.), Languages, scripts and their uses in ancient North Arabia. (Supplement to volume 48 of the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies). Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018.
  • [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. 24 pp 248–254 Plate XXIII
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Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Date Found
1909–1910
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Building, Genealogy, Religion, Structure, Women
Old OCIANA ID
#0034115
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