JSLih 067

Siglum
JSLih 067
Alternative Sigla
D 048, Scagliarini 1994: 281–284, no. 31, Al-Qudrah 1993: 36–37, no. 92, CLL 079, Grimme 1937: 309, HuIR no. 103
Transliteration
ḫls¹ / ḍr / bn
whb / ----t / l- hl-
ʾs¹ / ʾṯt -h
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Translation
By -h son of Died Ḍr son of
Whb ----t for Hl-
ʾs¹ his wife
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Jaussen & Savignac: ṭr for ḍr. Grimme: wr for ḍr. Line 2. Jaussen & Savignac: mrnt for ----t; Grimme: lk[m]t rather than ----t and l- lh for l- hl; Caskel followed by Al-Qudrah and Scagliarini: ----nt for ----t; Farès-Drappeau: m[m]nt for ----t. Line 3. Caskel followed by Scagliarini: l---- for l- hl. TRANSLATION Line 1. ḫls¹, Grimme: '(he) has been snatched away'; Jaussen and Savignac: 'Ḫilās¹ṭar'; Farès-Drappeau: 'tomb'. Line 2. Al-Qudrah does not translate the end of this line. Lines 2–3. Caskel: '[the advertisement comes] from -aus¹'; DISCUSSION Ullendorff 1955: 431. Macdonald 2004: 524 §5.1.1.1 (19).
Commentary
The inscription is erroneously registered under no. 68 in Jaussen & Savignac (1909-1920, ii, pl. LXXXIV).

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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.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 115
  • [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 160–161 Plate XIV
  • Grimme, H. Neubearbeitung der Wichtigeren Dedanischen und Liḥjanischen Inschriften. Le Muséon 50, 1937: 269-322.
  • [HuIR] Huber, C. Inscriptions recueillies dans l'Arabie centrale, 1878-1882. Bulletin de la Société de géographie 7th. series, 5, 1884: 289-303. No. 103
  • [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 409–411 Plate LXXXIV, CVII
  • 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.
  • Ryckmans, G. Le déchiffrement des inscriptions liḥyanites et thamoudénnes [Review of Winnett 1937 (WLT)]. Le Muséon 50, 1937: 323-337.
  • [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. 31 pp 281–284 Plate XXVII
  • Ullendorff, E. [Review of Caskel 1954 (CLL)]. Orientalia 24, 1955: 428-433.
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Date Found
1909–1910
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Funerary, Genealogy, Relatives, Women
Old OCIANA ID
#0034206
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