JSLih 075

Siglum
JSLih 075
Alternative Sigla
D 056, Al-Qudrah 1993: 35, no. 89, Déroche 1987: 124–126, JaL 102g, CLL 072, Grimme 1937: 314, Müller, D.H. 1889: 73–74, no. 25/1-7, Halévy 1884: 18-19, no. 5b, Doughty 1884, pl. XV, f. 26–27, Eut 835
Transliteration
ʿqrb / bn / mrʾlh / h- ṣ-
nʿ / ḏ- ġlḫ / ʾṯʿ / ʾ-
bʾlf / b- ḥqwy / k-
fr / f rḍ -h / w s¹ʿd -h / w
ʾḫrt -h / s¹nt / ḫms¹
l- hnʾs¹ / bn / tlmy
mlk / lḥyn
OCIANA
Translation
By / son of / ʿqrb son of Mrʾlh the
artisan of the lineage of Ġlḫ represented (carved) ʾ-
bʾlf on two sides of the
tomb and so favour him and help him and
his posterity in the year five
of Hnʾs¹ son of Tlmy
king of Lḥyn
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 2. Halévy does not read the end of this line; Jamme: ġlṭ for ġlḫ. Line 3. Halévy does not read this line. Line 4: Halévy followed by Müller, D.H., Jaussen & Savignac and Grimme: rṭ -h for rḍ -h. Lines 5–7. Halévy does not read these lines. Müller, D.H. reads two more lines. These belong to JSLih 076. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾṯʿ: Grimme: '(he) has helped'; Jamme: '(he) took service with'; Déroche: 'he made rich offering's; Al-Qudrah: '(he) has carved'; Farès-Drappeau does not translate this word. Line 4. rḍ -h, Caskel: 'two life-spans'. Lines 4–5. s¹ʿd -h w ʾḫrt -h, Müller, D.H. followed by Jaussen & Savignac: 'his happiness and his future'; Jamme: 'May he favour him and guide him!'; Line 5. ʾḫrt -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'and (he) guided him'. DISCUSSION Jamme 1971: 20–21. Déroche 1987: 106, 207. Macdonald 2004: 520, 522.
Commentary
Line 2. Forʾṯʿ (yṯʿ = yfʿ) see Müller, Walter W. 1979: 23–29. See also Sabaic yfʿ (Beeston et al. 1982: 168). The right side of the rock face is broken, the beginning of lines 1–4 cannot be read clearly on the photograph. The reading of these lines is based on the facsimile in Jaussen & Savignac (1909-1920, ii, pl. CIX).

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Remains
It is below JSLih 074, to the left of JSLih 073 and above JSLih 076

  • 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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.
  • Beeston, A.F.L., Ghul, M.A., Müller, W.W. & Ryckmans, J. Sabaic Dictionary (English-French-Arabic). Publication of the University of Sanaa, YAR. Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters / Beyrouth: Librairie du Liban, 1982.
  • [CLL] Caskel, W. Lihyan und Lihyanisch. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Geisteswissenschaften, 4). Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1954. pp 110
  • 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.
  • [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 168 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.
  • [Jamme 1971a] Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe I. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1971.
  • [JaL] Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe VII. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1974. pp 84–85 Plate 22
  • [Eut] Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe V. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1974. Plate 38C
  • [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 438–439 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.
  • Müller, W.W. Abyaṯaʿ und andere mit yṯʿ gebildete Namen im Frühnordarabischen und Altsüdarabischen. Die Welt des Orients 10, 1979: 23-29.
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Date Found
1909–1910
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Date (s¹nt), Funerary, Genealogy, Historical, Isolated Prayer, Lineage, Religion, Structure
Old OCIANA ID
#0034214
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