JSLih 085
Text Information
- Siglum
- JSLih 085
- Alternative Sigla
- D 065, Al-Qudrah 1993: 33-34, no. 84, Déroche 1987: 123–124, CLL 029
- Transliteration
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ḥwr / w h- m{ṣ}d / l- ḏġbt / f r[ḍ] -[h]
w s¹ʿd -h / w ʾḫrt -h / s¹nt / t[s¹ʿ]----
b- rʾy / ḫmt / gs²m / bn / lḏn / mlk ---- [l]
ḥyn / -----rʾhk----
[----]OCIANA - Translation
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By / son of / [----]
ḥwr and {the high [red] mountain} for Ḏġbt and so {favour} {him}
and help him and his posterity in year {nine}----
of the government of Ḫmt Gs²m son of Lḏn king ----- {L-
ḥyn} ----rʾhk----
[----]OCIANA - Language and Script
- Dadanitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TEXT Line 1. Jaussen & Savignac: r[ṭ] -[h] for r[ḍ] -[h]. Line 3: Jaussen & Savignac: ms²m for gs²m. Line 4. Caskel followed by Al-Qudrah: ḥyn s¹ʿ---- rʾhk---- rather than ḥyn -----rʾhk----. TRANSLATION Line 1. ḥwr w h- m{ṣ}d, Déroche: 'the hinges and the threshold'. Lines 1–2. Jaussen & Savignac: 'Ḥūr and ha-Muṣād to ḏu Ġābat, to his prosperity, his happiness and his future! in the year 9; Caskel: '(he) has offered the statue, the washing vessel and the bronze/copper kettle to Ḏū-ġābat. Two life spans, and fortune and descendants for him. In the year nine'; Al-Qudrah does not translate line 1 and the beginning of line 2. Line 2. ʾḫrt -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'he has guide him'. Line 3. b rʾy, Déroche: 'committee'. DISCUSSION Déroche 1987: 197–198, 226, 231. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
- Commentary
- There is no photograph available of this text and the reading is based on the Jaussen & Savignac's copy (1909-1920, ii, pl. CXII). In Classical Arabic (Lane 1863-1893: 2719b), the word maṣad means, among other things "a mountain top", or "a place of refuge". On the other hand, Abū l-Ḥasan (2002: 36–37) translates is as 'the high red mountain'. According to him, this meaning is consistent with the red colour of the Jabal Umm Daraǧ where the inscription has been found.
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- Technique
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- Direction of Script
- Horizontal line right to left
- [AH] Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D. Nuqūš liḥyānīyah min minṭaqat al-ʿulā. (Dirāsah taḥlīliyyah muqāranah). al-Riyāḍ: Wizārat al-maʿārif, 2002. pp 36–37
- 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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.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 90
- 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 174–175 Plate XX
- 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
- [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 456–457 Plate CXII
- [Lane] Lane, E.W. An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived from the Best and Most Copious Eastern Sources. (Volume 1 in 8 parts [all published]). London: Williams & Norgate, 1863-1893.
- Site
- The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Date Found
- 1909–1910
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Date (s¹nt), Deity, Genealogy, Historical, Isolated Prayer, Religion, Topographic features
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0034503
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