JSLih 083

Siglum
JSLih 083
Alternative Sigla
D 064, Al-Qudrah 1993: 34, no. 85, JaL 144, W.Dad 09, Ph 438, CLL 030, Grimme 1937: 302
Transliteration
[----]
s² / w ----
gs²ms¹ ----
mn / hḏh ----
ʾbhm / ḫrḥḏġbt / f r-
ḍy -hm / w ʾḫrt -hm / w s¹ʿ-
d -hm / s¹nt / ʿs²rn / w ts¹ʿ
29 / b- rʾy / gltqs¹
OCIANA
Translation
By Rʾy/gltqs¹ son of [----]
s² and ----
Gs¹ms¹ ----
from this ----
ʾbhm Ḫrḥḏġbt and so may (the deity)
favour them and their posterity and may he
help them in the year twenty-nine
29 in the government of Mltqs¹
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT The lines number below refer to the OCIANA reading not those of Grimme, Winnett & Reed, Jamme and Al-Qudrah. Line 1. Jaussen & Savignac followed by Winnett & Reed: w k---- rather than w----; van den Branden: w k(l----) rather than w; Caskel: [w ʿ] at the end of this line; Jamme: w ʾbd[----] for w----; Al-Qudrah: s¹ wh ---- [wʿ] rather than s² w----. Line 2. Jaussen & Savignac followed by Caskel, van den Branden, Winnett & Reed and Al-Qudrah: ms² ms¹ for gs²ms¹; Grimme ʿms²ms¹ for gs²ms¹; Farès-Drappeau: ms² s² for gs²ms¹; Grimme: [hdqw h ṣl]; Caskel followed by van den Branden and Al-Qudrah: [ḥyw hdqw h ṣl]; Winnett & Reed: h ṣl at the end of this line. Line 3. Jaussen & Savignac: h---- rather than hḏh; Grimme: [ḏnḏr l]ʿgl ----n; Caskel: [l] ʿglbn; van den Branden: ḏn[ḏr lʿglbn]; Winnett & Reed: h ḏ[h]n ----; Jamme: n [nḏr l wgḫbn]; Al-Qudrah: [ḏn]ḏ[r] lʿglbn at the end of this line. Line 4. Jamme: ḫr l ḏġbt rather than ḫrḥḏġbt. Line 5: Jaussen & Savignac followed by Grimme: rṭy -hm rather than rḍy -hm. Line 7: Jaussen & Savignac: mltqs¹ for gltqs¹. TRANSLATION Line 4. ʾbhm, Grimme followed by Caskel, van den Branden and Al-Qudrah: 'their father'; Winnett & Reed: 'their (divine) father'; Jamme: 'their father, by free choice to Ḏġbt - may he'. Lines 4–5. f rḍy -hm w ʾḫrt -hm w s¹ʿd -hm, Caskel followed by Al-Qudrah: 'two life spans, descendants and fortune for them'; w ʾḫrt -hm w s¹ʿd -hm, Jaussen & Savignac: 'for their future and their happiness'; w ʾḫrt -hm; van den Branden followed by Winnett & Reed, Jamme and Farès-Drappeau: 'he guided them'. Line 5. Winnett & Reed: 'favour them and guide them and bless'. Line 8. Grimme: '– 29 – in the government of the (king) Gallatqaus¹'; Winnett & Reed: 'in the reign of GLT-Qaus¹'. DISCUSSION Jamme 1968: 134. Jamme 1971: 21. Déroche 1987: 179, 197, 205. Macdonald 2004: 522. Scagliarini 2007: 254, 255.
Commentary
The first 4 lines are read from the facsimile Jaussen & Savignac (1909-1920, ii, pl. CXII).

Editio Princeps
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Technique
In relief
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

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Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Date Found
1909–1910
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Date (s¹nt), Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0034224
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