JSLih 070

Siglum
JSLih 070
Alternative Sigla
D 051, Scagliarini 1994: 293–300, no. 34, Al-Qudrah 1993: 38, no. 95, JaL 092b, CLL 086, Boneschi 1951: 11–12, note 4, Winnett 1937: 14–15, Grimme 1937: 308-309, Müller, D.H. 1889: 82, no. 52, HuIR no. 97, Eut 826
Transliteration
ḫls¹ / zdḫrg / bn /
bl / ḫld / s¹nt / ʿs²r-
n / w ts¹ʿ / ʿs²r / ʾym
ḫlf / fḍg / w b- mmʾ / ʿ-
ly / mg -h / mn / h- ḫls¹ / s¹h-
mʾlh / w zlbḫh / w mlk
OCIANA
Translation
By / son of / Snatched away was Zdḫrg son of
Bl forever [in the] year twenty-nine
ten days
after Fḍg and b- mmʾ on
his harvest of Mg from the tomb of S¹h-
mʾlh and Zlbhḫ and Mlk
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Müller, D.H.: ḫms¹ ---- dn ----n rather than ḫls¹ zdḫrg bn; Jamme: ḫms¹ for ḫls¹; Jaussen & Savignac: zdḫrm for zdḫrg; Jamme: bn ṯ---- rather than bn. Line 2. Müller, D.H.: ḫmd rather than ḫld; Caskel: ḫmd rather than ḫld. Line 3. Müller, D.H.: ʿs¹---- ʾ---- m rather than ʿs²r ʾym; Jamme: ʿs²r rather than ʿs²r. Line 4. Müller, D.H.: ḫlʿ ʿwm w bmʾ for ḫlf fḍg b- mmʾ; Jaussen & Savignac followed by Boneschi: fṭm for fḍg; Grimme: ʿṭm for fḍg. Line 5. Müller, D.H.: ---- h- ḫls¹ for ly mg -h mn h- ḫls¹ s¹h; Jaussen & Savignac: mmh for mgh; Grimme: fmh for mgh, he restores s¹h[w s¹] at the end of this line; Winnett: h- ḫlḏ ḏh for h- ḫls¹ s¹h; Boneschi: mmh [lmh] for mgh; Caskel followed by van den Branden and Jamme: fgh rather than mgh. Line 6. Müller, D.H.: hʾhḫ w klb ----h ----m rather than mʾlh w zlbḫhw mlk; Grimme: mʾl w zlġrh w mkk for mʾlh w zlbḫh w mlk; Winnett: w z?b?h mkk for zlbḫh mlk; Caskel: zlġlh w mkk for zlbḫh w mlk; Al-Qudrah: zlġlh w m(?)k for zlbḫh w mlk; Jamme: zlġlh for zlbḫh; Scagliarini: z(l)lġlh for zlbḫh. TRANSLATION Lines 1–6: Jaussen & Savignac: 'Ḫilās¹ Zaydḫarim son of Bal defeated twenty years and nineteen days after Fāṭim, and when he was against him, against Ḥilās¹, S¹ahmilah, and so he struck him and he has ruled'; Grimme: 'Zaidḫarag, son of Ba(ʿ)l has been snatched away. He has lived the year twenty and nine. Eighteenth days he stay behind. All what is over the entrance (of the grave) is snatched away on the left side. And it is stumbled the other as he and he falls out'; Winnett: 'Zaidḫarag, son of Ba(ʿ)l has been snatched away. He has lived twenty years and nineteen days after Faḍiġ ----'; Boneschi: 'Ḫilas¹ Zayd Ḫuraym son of Bāl maintained 20 years and 19 days [ in the power], after Fāṭim, and as moved from this Ḥilās¹ the numerous troop'; Caskel: 'Zaid-Ḫarag son of Ball murdered Ḫāmid in the year twenty-nine, about ten days after Faḍīg. But in a sign of the dead person to his flock and he was humiliated'; Jamme: 'Ḫamas¹ [of the family of] Zaydḫurg, son of Ṯubul, has settled down [here] in the year twenty-nine ten days of the succession of Fādig. And from them on, above his dependants, he has favoured the half-breeds, S¹ahimʾilah and Zāliġlah and Malik'; Farès-Drappeau: 'Tomb of Zdḫrg son of Bl, who dead the year twenty-nine, ten days after Fḍg ---- tomb of S¹hmʾlh ----'. Lines 2–5. Scaglariani: 'he lived twenty year and nineteen days after Fḍq when he was killed in Mgh'. Lines 4–6. Al-Qudrah: 'after Fḍg according to what came from the murderer for his community (he cannot explain his angry) and his rage will stay in his hereditary and make away his hate and he was humiliated'. DISCUSSION van den Branden 1962: 362–363. Déroche 1987: 204. Macdonald 2004: 520, 522.
Commentary
Line 6. Taymanitic ḫ?.

Editio Princeps
OCIANA

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is to the left of JSLih 069

  • Al-Qudrah, Ḥ.M. Dirāsah muʿǧamiyyah li-ʾalfāẓ al-nuqūš al-liḥyāniyyah fī ʾiṭār al-luġāt al-sāmiyyah al-ǧanūbiyyah. Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.
  • Boneschi, P. L'inscription liḥyanite d'anciennes monnaies tenues pour sabéennes. Rivista degli Studi Orientali 26, 1951: 1-15.
  • [CLL] Caskel, W. Lihyan und Lihyanisch. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Geisteswissenschaften, 4). Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1954. pp 119–120
  • 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 162–163 Plate XV
  • 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. 97
  • [JaL] Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe VII. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1974. pp 81–82 Plate 21
  • [Eut] Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe V. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1974. Plate 38A
  • [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 419–423 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.
  • Müller, D.H. Epigraphische Denkmäler aus Arabien. (nach Abklatschen und Copien des Herrn Professor Dr. Julius Euting in Strassburg). Borgelegt in der Sitzung am 9. Mai 1888. (Denkschriften der (kaiserlichen) Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 37.2). Wien: Tempsky, 1889.
  • [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. 34 pp 293–300 Plate XXIX
  • Van den Branden, A. Liḥ. JSA. 269 et la chronologie liḥyanite. Al-Machriq 56, 1962: 347-368.
  • [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
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Date Found
1909–1910
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Agriculture, Date (s¹nt), Funerary, Genealogy, Religion, Structure
Old OCIANA ID
#0034209
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