JSLih 073
Text Information
- Siglum
- JSLih 073
- Alternative Sigla
- D 054, Scagliarini 1994: 308–314, no. 36, Al-Qudrah 1993: 35–36, no. 90, Jamme 1974: 90, Jamme 1971: 38, CLL 073, Grimme 1937: 318, Müller, D.H. 1889: 75–76, no. 26, Halévy 1884: 18, no. 4, Doughty 1884, pl. XV, f. 26–27, Eut 837
- Transliteration
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ʾmtyṯʿn / bnt
dd / nḏ[r]t / bʿd bn-
t -h qn / bnt ḥṯl
l- s¹lmn / hm -ḏ nḏ-
rt ʿl -h / ʾm -h / f rḍ -h
w s¹ʿd -hOCIANA - Translation
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By / son of ʾmtyṯʿn daughter
of Dd {vowed} for the sake of her daughter
Qn, daughter of Ḥṯl
to S¹lmn in accordance with what
her mother vowed to him (the deity) and so favour her
and help herOCIANA - Language and Script
- Dadanitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TEXT Line 1. Müller, D.H.: ʾmtyqyn for ʾmtyṯʿn. Line 2. Müller, D.H.: ns¹t for nḏ[r] and mʿd for bʿd; Jamme: bgd for bʿd. Line 3. Müller, D.H.: thyqn bn tḥql for t h- qn bnt ḥṯl. Line 4. Müller, D.H.: hms¹ ns¹ for hm -ḏ nḏ. Line 5. Halévy followed by Müller, D.H., Jaussen & Savignac and Grimme: rṭ -h rather than rḍ -h. TRANSLATION Line 2. Jaussen & Savignac: 'Dād has promised in the place of (?)'; Farès-Drappeau: 'Dd, expiated in favour of her daughter'. Lines 2–6. Grimme: '(she) has vowed to her daughter a grave niche between the Ḥaṯ[ʾ]il and the places of cult to S¹ulmān. It is got what she vowed to her her mother and so refresh her and help her'; Caskel: 'after the dead of his daughter, Qain, the daughter of Ḥaṯīl, to S¹almān vowed, in accordance to the vowed, which made her mother. Two life-spans and luck to her'; Jamme 1974: Dawd, has conse[crat]ed the striped garments of her daughter Qayn, daughter of Ḥaṭīl, to S¹almān, those which had consecrated her mother on her behalf. May he grace her and favour her'. Lines 4–6. Scagliarini: 'what her mother imposed as a vote. So may satisfied her and favour her'; Farès-Drappeau: 'according to the promise which has done her mother in her favour. And so he has been satisfied by her and he has helped her'. Line 5. ʿl -h, Al-Qudrah: 'to her'. Line 6. w s¹ʿd -h, Jaussen & Savignac: 'and her fortune'. DISCUSSION Déroche 1987: 102. Macdonald 2004: 514 §4.2.3.2 (14). Farès 2009: 191-192. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128–129, for S¹lmn.
- Editio Princeps
- Caskel 1954: 111
- Technique
- Incised
- Direction of Script
- Horizontal line right to left
- Associated Remains
- It is to the right of JSLih 075 and above JSLih 077
- 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 111
- Déroche, F. Recherches sur l'oasis de Dedan / al-Ula. Thèse de Doctorat: Études arabo-islamiques, Paris IV, 1987. [Unpublished], 1987.
- [Do] Doughty, C.M. Documents épigraphiques recueillis dans le nord de l'Arabie. Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale et autres bibliothèques 29:1, 1884: 1–64, pls I–LVII.
- Farès, S. Les femmes prêtresses dans les religions arabes préislamiques. Le cas des Liḥyanites. Pages 183-195 in F. Briquel-Chatonnet, S. Farès, B. Lion & C. Michel (eds), Femmes, cultures et sociétés dans les civilisations méditeranéennes et proche-orientales de l'Antiquité. (Topoi Supplément, 10). Paris: Gabalda. Lyon: Maison de l'Orient Meditérranée, 2009.
- [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 166–167 Plate XVI
- Grimme, H. Neubearbeitung der Wichtigeren Dedanischen und Liḥjanischen Inschriften. Le Muséon 50, 1937: 269-322.
- Halévy, J. Découvertes épigraphiques en Arabie. Revue des études juives 9, 1884: 1-20.
- Hidalgo-Chacón Díez. M. del C. The divine names at Dadan: a philological approach. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 46, 2016: 125–136
- [Jamme 1971a] Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe I. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1971.
- [Eut] Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe V. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1974. pp 90 Plate 38D
- [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 434–437 Plate LXXXVII, LXXXVIIbis, CIX
- 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. 36 pp 308–314 Plate XXX, 11. 5-6
- Site
- The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Date Found
- 1909–1910
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Religion, Women
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0034212
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